Darius
Computed from 264,572 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Top | 50.6% | 8.8% |
| Jungle | 51.5% | 1.5% |
Darius is banned in about 15.9% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Darius's Top win rate is 0.6 percentage points above an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Darius is tracked in 2 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Top — its numbers in Jungle (1.5% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Darius's Top Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.21, Darius's most common Top setup runs Flash and Ignite with Conqueror, maxes Q first, and builds Youmuu's Ghostblade, Dead Man's Plate, and Sterak's Gage — 50.9% win rate over 59,891 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Ignite
51.3%14,863 games - Runes
Conqueror + Sorcery
51.6%2,561 games - Skill priority Q > E > W 51.3%57,142 games
- Starter
Doran's Blade + Health Potion
51.5%41,067 games - Boots
Boots of Swiftness
53.7%7,913 games - First three items
Youmuu's Ghostblade → Dead Man's Plate → Sterak's Gage
60.7%2,023 games
Darius's Top Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 49.3% | 9.9% | 22,972 | 0.10σ | No |
| Bronze | 50.4% | 9.7% | 28,343 | 0.07σ | No |
| Silver | 50.4% | 9.5% | 35,227 | 0.06σ | No |
| Gold | 50.6% | 9.1% | 38,926 | 0.11σ | No |
| Platinum | 51.1% | 8.3% | 38,477 | 0.22σ | No |
| Emerald | 50.9% | 7.5% | 27,744 | 0.20σ | No |
| Diamond | 51.1% | 6.7% | 22,377 | 0.25σ | No |
| Master | 52.2% | 5.8% | 8,833 | 0.47σ | No |
| Grandmaster | 46.8% | 4.3% | 406 | 0.43σ | No |
Darius's Top win rate ranges from 46.8% at Grandmaster to 52.2% at Master across the 9 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 5.4-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.47σ at Master and 0.43σ at Grandmaster, with neither clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. 1 tier under 200 games not shown.
- Power curve
- Early game
- Threats
- None of the seven we track
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Darius in Top?
Champions That Counter Darius
| Champion | Win Rate vs Darius | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Zilean |
56.5% | 1.37σ |
Aurelion Sol |
56.0% | 1.24σ |
LeBlanc |
55.1% | 1.07σ |
Annie |
54.3% | 0.91σ |
Kog'Maw |
54.0% | 0.85σ |
Champions Darius Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Darius | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Vi |
38.9% | 2.31σ |
Miss Fortune |
39.3% | 2.24σ |
Lillia |
40.2% | 2.05σ |
Mel |
40.5% | 1.99σ |
Locke |
40.7% | 1.94σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Darius: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 3-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.