Darius

the Hand of Noxus

JunglePatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

48%

Pick rate

Ban rate

10%

Games

140

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
96%48%135

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Gustwalker Hatchling, Stealth Ward
50%53%70
Gustwalker Hatchling, Stealth Ward, Oracle Lens
16%—22
Gustwalker Hatchling
11%—16

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Force of Nature
14%—19
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Sterak's Gage
12%—17
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Death's Dance
11%—15

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
38%49%53
Plated Steelcaps
32%—45
Mercury's Treads
26%—36

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Decimate → Apprehend → Crippling Strike

79%50%110

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		Q
W	W													W	W		W	W
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.