User blog comment:Themarine257/Darius Rework, Darius needs a little buff/@comment-24036535-20140606003137/@comment-15244341-20140606104648

Riven is squishy and gets destroyed by most top laners right now since her nerfs. Darius can pretty much out trade Renekton himself if well played. Darius pays for the nose for his awesome damage and how hard he dominates in lane by being kited REALLY hard by ranged champion. This is called a tradeoff and your changes mean that Darius has none of that, which is bad. And you can't snowball at all if you are 0/10 and get a double. So make any lane that you win with Darius a 0/10 lane and make sure to pick up some kills off the jungler in the process. That is how you play Darius, by forcing three people to come to you and killing at least one of them.

Also, you can't duel Jax, Trundle or Riven late game because Darius is at his strongest early-mid game and those champions have some of the strongest lategames in the whole fucking game. This is like complaining that Renekton can't kill a six item Jax with the same number of items. Asume you have an early game advantage to exploit and do it, so that they want to surrender by 20 minutes. If you get to lategame with Darius or Renekton you didn't do your job properly.

And of course, you almost never need to escape with Darius if you don't over commit or over extend. Ward properly in advance around your lane if you are going for a kill. Ward river and the entrances to the jungle in mid game and ward around Baron and Dragon during the whole game. Then look at the map, search for what heroes can kill you and decide if you want to go for a kill depending on their position or if they are visible on the map. As Darius you can most likely kill 1v2 at least one of them if not both of them if you are ahead. Late/mid game stick to your team and peel for whoever is more fed or follow your initiatior. Only flash->grab if the one you are grabbing is a squishy with no flash.