User blog comment:Themarine257/Darius Rework, Darius needs a little buff/@comment-24036535-20140606003137

No, he was originally nerfed hard because of his ult problems, two kills with it, and boom, full reset now, instead of a window of free usage. Buffing the already pretty good range of his pull and then giving him a stun would remove the only weakness Darius really has: Kiting, its already at a range where a shorter ranged champion can't kit him at all. Buffing it would make kiting near impossible, especially with a stun on his W.

Also, making him manaless really wouldn't help out at all, Darius needs mana to keep his lane phase from being too powerful. A free Q every few seconds means he gets immense harass and pushing power, while decent 1v2 abilities.

In all honesty you simply sound like a Darius player who wants his life to be easier as Darius. Darius is fine right now, he doesn't need any kind of change. If you're having mana problems with just about any champ, you're playing them wrong (Karthus being the only exception who comes to mind).

Finally, in reply to your first section...

I would say none of the listed champions are OP. Sure, none of them use mana, but usually they have cooldowns which they're limited by, or energy costs which limit their short term harass, or they have no kind of poke, only all kind damage. I wouldn't say Morde has any kind of gapcloser or escape either...

You know what those champions do have? Long cooldowns, if you're losing to Riven or Garen as Darius you're playing Darius wrong, and not properly trading with them, Riven's cooldowns are really long, as with Garen's. Plenty of champions have no gapclosers or escapes, look at Nasus, he doesn't even have a light MS steriod on his passive.