Talk:VPBE/@comment-4270771-20150812125656/@comment-24241876-20150812132207

It seems kind of meh for Darius, at least to me.

Darius already has excellent sticking power, he doesn't really need Frozen Mallet to augment that any further. He also has a brief slow on E, and a strong (read: 90%) slow on W.

What I figure he does need, is catching power, such as MS boosts to be able to get to his opponents in the first place, even more so now that his passive no longer gives him a bit of MS per bleeding enemy champion. Other items with more useful stats, while also providing HP, such as Black Cleaver (passive + CDR), Righteous Glory (active, also applying a slow), and Dead Man's Plate (passive MS gain + situational slow  + armor) already help to alleviate this problem.

Riot doesn't want anyone making Frozen Mallet viable (although, it can be argued that it is on certain champions), seeing as that it's just an on-hit slow, with a bit of AD and a large chunk of HP put together. Hell, they even gimped the build path a couple of seasons ago, after everyone kept seeing Atma's + Warmog's + Mallet.