Darius

the Hand of Noxus

TopPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

50%

Pick rate

Ban rate

10%

Games

597

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite
39%53%230
Flash + Ghost
38%48%229
Exhaust + Flash
23%49%136

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
30%51%180
Doran's Shield, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
23%56%140
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
22%49%134

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Death's Dance
10%58%62
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Force of Nature
6.9%—41
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Force of Nature → Death's Dance
3.9%—23

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
57%51%343
Mercury's Treads
29%52%172
Boots of Swiftness
10%47%60

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Sterak's Gage
5.9%—
Force of Nature
2.7%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Decimate → Apprehend → Crippling Strike

90%51%537

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W														W	W		W	W
E		E	E					E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 11,768 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.