Darius

the Hand of Noxus

JunglePatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

53%

Pick rate

Ban rate

11%

Games

377

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
97%54%365

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Gustwalker Hatchling, Stealth Ward
41%55%153
Gustwalker Hatchling
25%46%96
Gustwalker Hatchling, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
10%—39

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Force of Nature
19%51%72
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Death's Dance
16%52%61
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Sterak's Gage
12%—44

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
45%49%171
Plated Steelcaps
29%54%110
Mercury's Treads
22%59%83

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Death's Dance
7.2%—
Sterak's Gage
6.6%—
Force of Nature
6.1%—

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

85%55%321

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	W
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 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 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.