ARAM

Darius ARAM Build 26.22

Darius feasts on the clumped fighting the Abyss forces, catching multiple enemies on the outer blade of Decimate so the whole packed line feeds his heal and his bleed stacks. Apprehend drags a straggler back into the grinder, and Noxian Guillotine executes and resets across the endless 5v5. Build bruiser and let the bodies pile onto the bridge.

#30 of 162 champions this patch · 159 games

Win rate54.1%+3.2Games159Pick rate6.4%Last 8 patches+3.7 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 2%AD 79%True 19%DifficultyiLowForgiving

The 10-second answer standard · 54.1% WR

Mercury's Treads SkillsQ›E›W Runes

Shards

Classic ModernARAMCounter

162 champions

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ARAM BalanceDamage dealt+5%Details ↓

Darius Item Build

Health and resistances go before pure damage, because Darius has no gap-closer to chase a kill and needs to survive the return fire while Hemorrhage stacks bleed across a packed melee row. With no fountain trip to patch him up, Decimate's outer blade is his only top-up, healing off every champion it catches, so the bulkier he is the longer he grinds toward a Noxian Guillotine reset.

Standard loadout · Darius The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 1400g

Boots×1

Phage×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Mercury's Treads74% · 56.3%

Plated Steelcaps26% · 45.9%

Situational items

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.F

Force of Nature4254.8%S

Spirit Visage2948.3%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.T

Thornmail1283.3%D

Death's Dance5459.3%R

Randuin's Omen1346.2%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.B

Black Cleaver2352.2%

Best Darius Runes

Conqueror rewards exactly how Darius wants every Abyss fight to play out, pulling with Apprehend and refusing to leave the pile. His kit just needs the enemy bunched to spread Hemorrhage across all five and land a Guillotine reset, and the nonstop teamfighting on the bridge delivers that over and over. Round it out with the resolve to hold the choke.

The pre-game page Conqueror · Precision + Resolve · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Precision Primary

ConquerorGain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.

Triumph83% · 53.0%

Legend: Haste77% · 49.6%

Last Stand65% · 50.5%

Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Resolve, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Resolve Secondary

Bone Plating40% · 51.6%

Unflinching39% · 53.2%

Stat shards Offense

Attack Speed+10% Attack Speed

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)

Stack toward Trinity Force into Dead Man's Plate and turn Darius into the frontline that grinds the clump down. Decimate's outer blade catches the whole stacked enemy team and heals him back up, which matters on the Abyss where there is no recall to top off. The longer he sits in the pile bleeding everyone with Hemorrhage, the more Noxian Guillotine resets snowball.

Darius Skill Order

Crippling Strike holds the one rank it opens with until level 14, so Decimate takes 4, 5, 7 and 9 while Apprehend fills 8, 10, 12 and 13. Front-loading the axe suits a champion dealing five percent more damage on the Abyss, where the wide swing beats a single-target follow-up.

Skill order · Darius R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›E

E›W

WMax Q first; E at level 3.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W214151718max 18

E38101213max 13

R61116max 16

Put your first points into Q so Decimate hits the whole clump and heals Darius through the poke war, then E and W. The outer-edge blade is his sustain and his damage at once when five enemies are stacked on the choke. Save Noxian Guillotine for the reset that turns one kill into a cascade.

Darius ARAM Abilities

Half of Apprehend is the passive nobody talks about, a permanent armor shred on his physical damage that quietly makes every axe swing hit harder. Crippling Strike is the sticky glue, a slow on his next attack that stops targets from walking out of the bleed.

Abilities on the Abyss · Dariuspatch 26.22 · Abyss-tuned numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

HemorrhagePassiveP

DecimateMax 1stQ

Crippling StrikeMax lastW

ApprehendMax 2ndE

Noxian GuillotineUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

DecimatePhysical damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamagevaries per ranklv 15350lv 48480lv 5116110lv 7147140lv 9179170Cost+5 per ranklv 125lv 430lv 535lv 740lv 945Cooldown-1.25 per ranklv 19slv 47.75slv 56.5slv 75.25slv 94s

Abyss changeloghow the Abyss re-balances Darius: entries touching the selected ability light upDamage dealt+5%champion tuning

Darius Base Stats

Base stats · DariusPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD64+5AS0.625+1%MS340Range175HP652+114HP510+0.95Armor37+5.2MR32+2.05MP263+58MP56.6+0.35

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