Talk:Darius/@comment-5211662-20150504170635

I am the only one who prefer to run 21/9 instead of 9/21 on Darius?

Yes, 9/21 makes him tankier, and he already has high damage. However, by not running 21/9, his damage falls off late game, and he becomes too reliant on his ulti to kill anyone. Not only going deeper on offensive gives Darius more raw AD; it also gives him armor penetration AND magic penetration (making his passive stronger, and making Thornmail/Sunfire Cape stronger should I decide to buy them).

Actually, I do that on any bruiser/fighter that is not named Nasus/Dr. Mundo: I don't like going further than 9 points on the defensive tree as it doesn't actually give that much. There are a lot of % masteries on the offensive tree, thererfore making them scale very well; but the defensive masteries are mostly flat values. The only thing that would be extremely useful would be the Tenacious mastery, but I need to go very deep on the masteries to get that.

So I prefer to run 21/9. With the proper build, I don't feel any difference on tankyness; but without the offensive masteries, I feel a noticeably decrease in damage outside of the early game. The only time where I go 9/21 is when I am the only on my team who can properly build tanky and my team already has enough damage.

Of course I still run 9/21 on tanks (Malphite, Maokai, etc) - they don't need the extra damage, they need as much tankyness as possible. On Cho'Gath, however, I still run 21/9. He already gets a lot of free tankyness thanks to his ult, with 21/9 I am able to do a lot more damage, especially during early/late game.