Talk:Vi/@comment-5669306-20121207203540/@comment-5669306-20121207215703

To be fair, I could have picked other champions for this comparison. How about Syndra? She, too, first evoked reactions of "holy shit she'll rape face" and yet you barely see her actually being played because she requires far too much setup that the popular opionion didn't get to see until she made it into the game. On the other hand, Diana was just passed off as some Akali rehash at first and now, she got picked frequently at IPL and she rapes face.

The reason I picked Darius was because it was the most egregious to me personally, and I will admit he's got his benefits. These benefits being making top lane a living hell. You don't pick Darius to reach the 50 minutes mark, you're there to make a potential carry bruiser cry so he'll never get to play out his strengths before you move down to other lanes and make them cry as well. If it goes on for any longer, you basically turn into a walking ultimate and either 1. dunk your way through the entire team and make you AD carry miss out on more money than he got through assists or 2. deal admittedly major damage to one target and one target only. Given that your ult in endgame will deal about 800 damage to one target, which is, as said before, an AD carry crit, it doesn't give Darius quite as much utility in later stages of the game, though that is to compensate for his insane early. There's simply better choices if the game is supposed to be longer running.

As for how W procs work, yeah, stacking W works on all of her abilities and autoattack, similarily to Silver Bolts. That means, Q + 2 times E + R + 2 auto attacks for good measure = 6 hits = at least 20 percent health off. What I should've said is that she relies on her abilities to put stacks on a target - quickly - because, again, attack speed will hardly be an option on her as it stands.