Talk:Darius/@comment-26001789-20150506033528/@comment-4919681-20150506132347

First of all thank you for this, Darius was my first main and favorite but I now only play mainly as jungler so yeah ..

Few things that I'd like to say, have you considered starting Flask + pots I think it offers the same pressure as Long Sword since you'll get to Q more often and the sustain, also starting boots + pots is a viable option against ranged champions.

I recommend the 21/9 masteries it offers the aggressivity you want/need and most of your build will be tank items mostly (Randuin, Warmog, Spirit Visage, Banshee etc etc) even tho going with tanky masterie 9/21 is viable too, also take into consideration the Tank junglers meta so you are probabaly not the only tank out there.

For the runes:

- 9 armor pen/flat AD reds OR 1 Crit + 8 armor pen/flat AD reds (Consider that your passive scales with AD so I prefer those over the armor penetration)

- 9 flat armor yellows

- 6 CDR + 3 MR/scaling MR (6 is all you need to get to that 5%, add 5% from masteries and 20% from Black cleaver, 10% from Youmuu and TADAA 40%) OR you can just  go 9 MR/scaling MR

- 3 AD quints

For the summoner's spells it will be either Ignite + Flash OR Ignite + TP I prefer flash tho since you lack mobility and you need to close in to those nasty squishies, even a Teleport into a ward and wreaking their bot lane sound tempting.

You said everything about the item build, so skipping.

All in all, I agree with most of what you've said about the gameplay and all, you are weak to kiting (Vayne, Quinn etc etc) so you'll be needing some tenacity and stuff. You must get adventage in early game and snowball cause I think you fall off late game (Thus the tanky items).

You gave me the urge to play Darius top again (I may experiment jungle). Best of luck.