Talk:Darius/@comment-36002403-20180703200410/@comment-25579938-20181122024505

is by far the best pure counter I know to, though it will leave your team without a tank later. He tags almost at will with  and can reliably whittle him down without risk with  as stacks pile up. If you get grabbed, shock him with and run away before he can stack up any stacks of  on you. If you lane well, your ult is nearly a guaranteed kill if your stats are favorable enough and he's half health or below. (Avoid the temptation to roam if you get ahead, though - keep up the lane pressure as he can still dominate you if he gets a lead himself, he's still after all.)  and  are also pretty decent against him in this vein as well, as  and  really limit his effectiveness and like most Juggernauts he's weak against ranged tops. If you prefer not to leave your team without a frontliner, is not awful in this vein, as the percent health on  is pretty useful at getting around his ridiculously high base armor.

If you prefer melee at all costs, or really need a frontliner to balance out the comp, and  can use  or  very effectively against him -  is devastating if you can get one against, whereas  utterly stops  stacks from building up. is potentially good as well, as outranges him on the first two strikes while punishing him with the last if he tries to, and  will then get you out of range to avoid devastating  stacks while healing you with the passive. Also, as many others have noted, and  as a dodge as well as Rhaast's healing on  work in that style too.

Finally, among the pure Tanks and other Juggernauts, and  are both pretty effective. and were made, lorewise and otherwise, to have epic bouts against each other, and if you use  and  properly in tandem you'll punish his  attempts, and  allows you to heal any time you're out of combat whereas he actually has to hit you with  in order to heal. Meanwhile, generally has the advantage against him any time she has access to two or more tentacles spawned from, and she has access to , a single success on which can whittle him down badly while he has nothing comparable to retaliate with. (However, you still want to do this in range of your tentacles, or he'll just come at you and prevent the curse from being placed in the first place.)

Hope this helps! I lose to ol' axe breath a lot less often than I used to having studied up on all these things, though it definitely took awhile to accumulate this stack of knowledge.