Darius

the Hand of Noxus

JunglePatch 16.21Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

51%

Pick rate

Ban rate

11%

Games

626

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
96%52%601
Ghost + Smite
4.0%—25

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Gustwalker Hatchling, Stealth Ward
43%51%272
Gustwalker Hatchling
24%51%148
Gustwalker Hatchling, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
11%46%67

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Death's Dance
23%62%143
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Force of Nature
15%53%95
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Sterak's Gage
8.5%53%53

Boots

Boots of Swiftness
50%51%310
Plated Steelcaps
24%55%148
Mercury's Treads
23%50%146

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Death's Dance
9.6%53%
Force of Nature
7.5%—
Sterak's Gage
7.2%—
Randuin's Omen
3.0%—

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

82%54%514

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

Q › W › E3% of games— win

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 38,055 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.21 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.