Talk:Darius/@comment-6061249-20150820215046

Despite trying to be as hyped as possible about those changes and trying it out in a couple of matches, i'm afraid i need to change my main.

So basically, they gave him extreme late game potential, which sounds broken. Except they cut off any ways of achieving that powerspike and made his early game EXTREMELY WEAK.

Hemorrhage was given with those "OP" late game mechanics, for a cost of dealing less damage early. I don't mind it much though, it's not the reason why Darius' early is dead.

Decimate was given some counterplay which sounds cool. But then, it also got its damage reduced by HALF, and was given a nonsense, barely visible heal. Of course, this damage upscales later and the heal becomes even quite useful, but it tickles enemies until +20 minutes.

The pull can no longer pick up someone after they blink or dash. Cool, except it also reduced its effective range and made matchups like Gnar or Riven far harder, coupled with Decimate changes, it's a death sentence to play against those now, when it was quite easy before. I literally use this ability less times than i used to, this change damaged the champion a lot.

And then, the ultimate. I see a bunch of reasons to reduce its damage in early game. Only if everything else didn't have its damage reduced too.

Then, the "OP lategame powerspike". Let me explain why is it barely possible to achieve.

Let's get five stacks and go for a chain pentakill, yeah? Cool. Except Riot doesn't want you to do that. If they wanted to, they wouldn't reduce Darius' attack speed to the level of NAUTILUS. Then, you get another delay while casting Q. And you better hit with that blade or else you won't get a stack. Simply, it takes way too much time to stack any target up to 5. Almost twice as long as old Darius did. Also, your pull is technically shorter, therefore good luck with actually catching shit. Don't forget that your Crippling Strike deals a lot less damage than it used to because it doesn't scale up anymore. And it doesn't reduce attack speed so you are going to take more damage in process. And even if you somehow reach 5 stacks on anyone, good luck on getting that chain ult.

They decided to give him the chance to reach that chain ult fantasy. Except they cut off everything just for sake of that instant stacking.

I can't even protect myself when i'm fed. That's unbelievably weak. Darius' damage got reduced by half.

Over three years of maining. Getting from silver to diamond. And the story ends here, Darius is no longer really playable. Fuck you, CertainlyT.

tl;dr Salty diamond main complains about how Darius' early game is unbelievably weak now and the late game buffs don't even matter because of that.