User blog comment:TheJohns/Finally, a reasonable Darius nerf/@comment-216.58.59.39-20121026224342

I think somebody said this before me, but I'll say it again.

Darius' ult isn't OP in teamfights, it does very low damage considering how you will never get high passive stacks on somebody in a teamfight, and mostly just KS's his team if the Darius is bad (most Darius' are bad).

However, in lane, he can kill you, then when he comes back kill you again since his ult is refreshed. Most top laners cannot do that: they use their ult to kill somebody, when the person comes back that top laner no longer has their ult and is therefore extremely vulnerable for ~30s, while Darius' ult has no cd at all when used to kill. Therefore, this guy's nerf about letting Darius use his ult again only in the 8s after killing is good, since his teamfight ability is virtually unchanged and his lane presence after a kill does not give him a significant advantage over other tops.