Talk:Darius/@comment-25532677-20150827020427/@comment-24496127-20150827023357

I have a 100% counter to her called banning.

In seriousness, it's just a terrible match up for Darius. If you want to be able to beat her, you need to get a kill early, because if you're even with her, then by the time you get through her shield and have enough stacks to execute her, you'll already be dead, but if you build full tank you never really get through the shield in the first place. She can also just abuse his rather poor early game with her overwhelming one. Theoreticaly however, a thornmail rush could keep her from winning fights if you go even, but that's not the best for a number of other reasons, and if you're too behind her she can just end up buresting you through it.

I'd suggest getting ganks, roaming if possible, or going for a cheese kill with a pull under tower or something. If the Riven is bad enough that you can hit her with your Q, then you can potentially poke her down and outsustain her, but then again relying on an enemy being bad to beat them isn't exactly the best strategy.

If by some miracle you get five stacks on her, without her being about to kill you, then trade as hard as you can while your passive activated. It's like the only time you can realistically beat a good Riven in a trade.