Talk:Darius/@comment-24896347-20150125161000

Why do people I see that play Darius always rush ravenous Hydra instantly? It works time to time but the rush is just stupid. Perosnally, I like to go brutalizer or hexdrinker (depends on match up whether vs ap or ad champions) and then get a giants belt, wardens mail and boots. After this, I get randuins omen while still having the brutalizer and then go for a hydra. Reason being I don't go straight damage is because of 2 reasons.

Reason 1: 2v1 potential is weaker, You don't survive enough to kill two targets, sure you can focus down one target, but you die far to quickly.

Reason 2: Less vunerable to ganks by going brutalizer, Randuins omen and boots early while still having a pretty decent amount of damage.

Every Darius player I have seen will either rush sunfire cape (Please, just, don't do this, Sunfire cape is not an item that scales into late game, and darius needs some form of late game so sunfire is just like a waste) Or they will go Ravenous hydra instantly (Why? why not just go tiamat, get some tankiness while still have tiamat for damage, why go straight Ravenous...)

don't take this the wrong way, damage is an amazing thing to have on Darius, however, This is not something smart. If you build tanky while still having some damage, this means that your lane opponent will struggle to kill you and if they get a gank you can easily kill both. Not to mention, if your opponent just sits under a tower, with your tank stats, you can just keep spamming decimate while they are under tower and if you tank a tower shot then it barely does anything because of randuins.

This is how I like to build darius

Brutalizer, go right into randuins omen, ninja tabi or mercury trends, ravenous hydra, banshees vail, Either sell Brutalizer and get last whisper or build brutalizer into black cleaver (I go last whisper if my team is more ap then ad because the passive of black cleaver won't do much if like im the only person who makes use of the passive)

And as for a last item

Its either guardians angel, righteous glory, locket of iron solari, Frozen heart, Thornmail or Trinity force.