This meta overview presents DARIUS’s ranked performance across different roles and skill tiers. The data includes tier placement, win rate, pick rate, ban rate, and short-term trends, allowing you to evaluate her current strength and draft priority. Statistics are synced with rank buckets and role selection, helping you understand where DARIUS performs best and how her impact changes in the evolving Wild Rift meta.
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Solo Baron Line DARIUS. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Ruby Crystal. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Ruby Crystal
+150 Max Health
500
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item offers a strong blend of survivability and damage: after using an ability your next basic attack is empowered to deal bonus damage based on the target’s max health, and it heals you when used on enemy champions. Perfect for fighter-bruisiers and solo laners who weave abilities into autos and need sustain versus tanks and duelists.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Spear of Shojin
Gain damage bonuses
+450 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
Dragonforce:
+20% Ability Haste.
Focused Will: Dealing damage to monsters or enemies with abilities increases your champion’s ability and passive damage by 3% for 6s. (Stacks 4 times).
3100
Spear of Shojin TIPS: This item provides a mix of survivability and empowered ability usage: it increases your staying power, reduces ability cooldowns, and temporarily boosts your ability and passive damage after engaging enemies or clearing monsters. Perfect for duelist bruisers who want to cast more often in fights and gain an edge in extended skirmishes or split-push scenarios. Suited for champions who weave autos with frequent ability casts.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Mercury's Treads
Increases Magic resist
+150 Max Health
+25 Magic Resistance
+15 Tenacity
+45 Move Speed
1200
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots increase your Magic Resistance while making you more resilient to crowd control through Tenacity. The bonus Health and movement speed improve both survivability and mobility, allowing you to perform more effectively against magic damage and heavy-CC team compositions. They are an excellent choice for tanks, fighters, and any champion who needs to stay in the fight longer.
Armored Advance
Grants Armor and a shield
+150 Max Health
+35 Armor
+45 Move Speed
Block: Reduce damage from champion attacks by 10%.
Noxian Endurance: After taking physical damage from a champion grants a physical shield that absorbs damage equal to 10-140 plus 8% max Health
. (12s Cooldown)
2200
Armored Advance TIPS: These boots provide excellent protection against physical damage. They reduce damage taken from enemy champion attacks and grant a protective shield after taking physical damage from a champion, helping you survive extended trades and heavy bursts of physical damage. They are an excellent choice against marksmen, fighters, and other champions who rely primarily on physical attacks.
Chainlaced Crushers
Gain a magic shield upon taking magic damage
+150 Max Health
+35 Magic Resistance
+30% Tenacity
+45 Move Speed
Noxian Persistence: After taking magic damage from a champion, gain a magic shield that absorbs 10-120 plus 5% max
for 5s. (12s Cooldown)
2200
Chainlaced Crushers TIPS: These boots greatly improve your survivability against magic damage. After taking magic damage from an enemy champion, you gain a magic shield that helps absorb follow-up spells, while the bonus Magic Resistance and Tenacity make you far more resilient against AP threats and crowd control. They are an excellent choice against teams with heavy magic damage and strong CC.
Divine Sunderer (Anti-Health attacks) as your first item, followed by
Plated Steelcaps (Reduces damage from champion attacks) or
Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is
Spear of Shojin (Gain damage bonuses).
Armored Advance (Grants Armor and a shield). You may want to replace it with
Chainlaced Crushers (Gain a magic shield upon taking magic damage), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item offers a strong blend of survivability and damage: after using an ability your next basic attack is empowered to deal bonus damage based on the target’s max health, and it heals you when used on enemy champions. Perfect for fighter-bruisiers and solo laners who weave abilities into autos and need sustain versus tanks and duelists.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Spear of Shojin
Gain damage bonuses
+450 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
Dragonforce:
+20% Ability Haste.
Focused Will: Dealing damage to monsters or enemies with abilities increases your champion’s ability and passive damage by 3% for 6s. (Stacks 4 times).
3100
Spear of Shojin TIPS: This item provides a mix of survivability and empowered ability usage: it increases your staying power, reduces ability cooldowns, and temporarily boosts your ability and passive damage after engaging enemies or clearing monsters. Perfect for duelist bruisers who want to cast more often in fights and gain an edge in extended skirmishes or split-push scenarios. Suited for champions who weave autos with frequent ability casts.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Stridebreaker
Slows enemies nearby after a short dash
+400 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
+15% Attack Speed
Breaking Shockwave (Active): Activate to dash a short distance, dealing 100% AD
as Physical Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 40% for 3s (25s cooldown)
Stride (Passive): Gain 20 Movement Speed for 2 second(s) when you deal physical damage.
3100
Stridebreaker TIPS: This item combines mobility, damage, and crowd control, making it easier to stick to your targets. Its active lets you dash a short distance, damage nearby enemies, and heavily slow them, while the passive grants bonus movement speed whenever you deal physical damage. It is an excellent choice for fighters and bruisers who want to engage quickly, chase down opponents, and keep enemies within melee range.
Stridebreaker — This item combines mobility, damage, and crowd control, making it easier to stick to your targets. Its active lets you dash a short distance, damage nearby enemies, and heavily slow them, while the passive grants bonus movement speed whenever you deal physical damage. It is an excellent choice for fighters and bruisers who want to engage quickly, chase down opponents, and keep enemies within melee range.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Shield
+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 100 plus 90% bonus
and gain size, decayng over 2.5s. (60s Cooldown)
2900
Gargoyle Stoneplate TIPS: This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
Gargoyle Stoneplate — This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Thornmail — This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Overlord's Bloodmail
Gain Attack Damage when losing Health
+450 Max Health
+30 Attack Damage
Tyranny: Gain Attack Damage equal to 2.5% of your bonus Health.
Retribution: Gain up to 9% increased Attack Damage based on your missing Health. Maximum Retribution bonus while below 30% Health.
3200
Overlord's Bloodmail TIPS: This item converts bonus health into attack power and ramps up your damage when you drop into dangerous HP ranges — a hybrid pick for players who want to be both tanky and threatening. It suits bruisers and solo laners who stack health and embrace high-risk, high-reward skirmishes: the more bonus health you have, the stronger your raw attacks become, and when you fight at low health you deal amplified damage. Great for aggressive duelists who win trades by trading survivability for burst.
Overlord's Bloodmail — This item converts bonus health into attack power and ramps up your damage when you drop into dangerous HP ranges — a hybrid pick for players who want to be both tanky and threatening. It suits bruisers and solo laners who stack health and embrace high-risk, high-reward skirmishes: the more bonus health you have, the stronger your raw attacks become, and when you fight at low health you deal amplified damage. Great for aggressive duelists who win trades by trading survivability for burst.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Mercurial Scimitar
Dispels crowd control
+45 Attack Damage
+10% Physical Vamp
+40 Magic Resistance
Quicksilver Sash (Active): Removes all crowd control debuffs from you and grants immunity to crowd control for 0.25s.
Perseverance (Passive): When the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects.
3100
Mercurial Scimitar TIPS: This item is designed to counter crowd control. Its active removes most disabling effects and briefly grants immunity to follow-up control, while the passive provides additional resistance to crowd control and slows once the effect ends. It is an excellent choice for marksmen, fighters, and assassins who need to maintain their mobility and keep dealing damage against heavy-CC team compositions.
Mercurial Scimitar — This item is designed to counter crowd control. Its active removes most disabling effects and briefly grants immunity to follow-up control, while the passive provides additional resistance to crowd control and slows once the effect ends. It is an excellent choice for marksmen, fighters, and assassins who need to maintain their mobility and keep dealing damage against heavy-CC team compositions.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
3100
Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Death's Dance — This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Kaenic Rookern
Gains a magic shield when out of combat
+350 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+75 Magic Resistance
Magebane: After not taking magic damage for 12 seconds, gain a magic shield that absorbs damage equal to 70-180 + 10% of max Health
.
2800
Kaenic Rookern TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Kaenic Rookern — This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 30% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Randuin's Omen — This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and
Ghost (Gain a large burst of movement speed) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Ghost
Gain a large burst of movement speed, that decays to 25% bonus movement speed for 8 seconds. With each takedown, Ghost's duration is extended by 6 seconds, refreshing its effects, up to the original amount.
Cooldown: 90s
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380
) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Conqueror (Gain stacks of AD or AP when hitting a champion with separate attacks or abilities. Stacks up to 6 times. When fully stacked, gain bonus Omnivamp (Adaptive).) as your keystone, followed by
Demolish (Automatically charges up when you are near turrets. Once fully charged, your next attack deals massive amounts of damage to turrets.),
Bone Plating (Reduces incoming damage.) and
Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the primary tree, as well as
Legend: Tenacity (Gains Tenacity and Slow Resist.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Conqueror
Stacking Damage, Vamp
Gain stacks of Adaptive Force when hitting a champion with separate attacks or abilities. Stacks up to 6 times. When fully stacked, gain bonus omnivamp.
Per stack: 3-5 bonus
or 4-8
for 6s.
Fully stacked bonus: Melee - 9%, Ranged - 5% bonus Omnivamp
.
Demolish
Destroy turrets faster
When within 550 range of an enemy turret, gain a charge every 0.5s, up to 6 times.
When fully charged, your next attack against the turret deals an additional (100 + 22% max Health
) physical damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Bone Plating
Anti-Burst Damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 40s
Overgrowth
Increase max Health
For every 3 enemy minions or 3 monster(s) killed nearby, permanently gain 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely this way. Gain an additional 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Legend: Tenacity
Increase Tenacity and Slow Resist
Gains 3% Tenacity and 3% Slow Resist. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 15% Tenacity and 20% Slow Resist.
Demolish
Destroy turrets faster
When within 550 range of an enemy turret, gain a charge every 0.5s, up to 6 times.
When fully charged, your next attack against the turret deals an additional (100 + 22% max Health
) physical damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Courage of the Colossus
Immobilize enemies to gain shields
Gains a shield that absorbs up to 25-45 (
) + 1% of max Health
for 3s when immobilizing an enemy champion.
Cooldown: 18s
Courage of the Colossus — The rune grants a shield that absorbs damage when you immobilize an enemy champion. The shield scales with your maximum health, making it perfect for champions with high survivability. It is especially useful for tanks or fighters who frequently control enemies and are at the center of fights. The rune helps improve survivability by providing additional protection when using crowd control abilities.
Bone Plating
Anti-Burst Damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 40s
Second Wind
Increase sustain
Gain 5 Health
every 5 seconds.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, regenerate 3 + (1.5% of your missing health)
over the next 5 seconds. This effect is doubled for melee champions.
Second Wind — The rune restores health every 5 seconds and significantly boosts regeneration after taking damage from an enemy champion. This rune is especially useful for champions who are often in the thick of the fight, such as tanks or fighters, as it helps sustain health during battles. The effect is doubled for melee champions, making it even more effective in extended fights, improving survivability.
Overgrowth
Increase max Health
For every 3 enemy minions or 3 monster(s) killed nearby, permanently gain 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely this way. Gain an additional 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Perseverance
Increase survivability when crowd controlled
Gain 10% Tenacity. Gain 10-15 Armor and Magic Resistance (
) for 1.5 seconds when mmobilized. Refresh duration time when immobilized multiple times.
Perseverance — The rune increases your tenacity by 10%. When immobilized, it grants you bonus armor and magic resistance for a short period. The effect refreshes if you are immobilized multiple times, making the rune especially useful for champions who often find themselves under crowd control. It is ideal for tanks and fighters, enhancing their survivability in fights when they are subjected to multiple crowd control effects.
Legend: Tenacity
Increase Tenacity and Slow Resist
Gains 3% Tenacity and 3% Slow Resist. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 15% Tenacity and 20% Slow Resist.
Axiom Arcanist
Empowered Ultimate Ability
Your ultimate ability has 10% increased damage, healing, and shielding. (AoE damage is reduced to a 5% increase.)
Scoring a takedown on an enemy champion reduces your ultimate ability's remaining cooldown by 7%.
Axiom arcanist — This rune empowers your ultimate ability, making it more impactful in every fight while also allowing you to use it more often through takedowns. It is ideal for champions who heavily rely on their ultimate for damage, control, or utility. It works best on mages, supports, and some assassins where the ultimate plays a key role in deciding fights.
(Q) DECIMATE
9.5/8/6.5/5s
35/40/45/50
Swings his axe after a delay, dealing 45 physical damage (18/32/46/60 + 35/40/45/50%
).
Hitting enemies with the blade of the axe deals 127 physical damage (50/90/130/170 + 100/115/130/145%
), heals himself for 15% of his missing Health for each champion hit (max 45%) and applies Hemorrhage.
(W) CRIPPLING STRIKE
5.5s
30/30/30/30
Empowers his next attack to deal an additional 21 physical damage (30/40/50/60%
) and slows by 90% for 1 second.
(E) APPREHEND
18/16/14/12s
45
Passive: Gains 15/22/29/36% Armor Penetration.
Active: Pulls in enemies in front of him, slowing them by 40% for 1.5 second.
(R) NOXIAN GUILLOTINE
70/65/60s
100/100/0
Leaps to execute a champion. Deals 125 true damage (125/250/375 + 75% bonus
) increased by 20% per Hemorrhage stack, and applies Hemorrhage.
Killing the target with Noxian Guilotine refreshes its cooldown, mana cost, and grants Noxian Might for 5 seconds and causes nearby minions and monsters to flee for 1.5 seconds.
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Solo Baron DARIUS. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Solo Baron DARIUS in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 30% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380
) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Executioner's Calling
Physical Damage reduces enemy healing
+15 Attack Damage
Rend: Physical Damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds. Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
800
Oblivion Orb
Magic damage reduces enemy healing
+35 Ability Power
Cursed Wounds: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions applies 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
800
Bramble Vest
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+30 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 4 magic damage + 6% bonus armor
to the attacker and inflict 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds if they are a champion.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
1000
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Chempunk Chainsword
Reduces enemy healing
+400 Max Health
+45 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Punishment: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2800
Chempunk Chainsword TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing
+300 Max Health
+75 Ability Power
+15 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2650
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is designed to counter champions with strong healing and sustain. Any magic damage you deal applies Grievous Wounds, greatly reducing the effectiveness of enemy healing and regeneration. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP supports against teams that rely heavily on healing, lifesteal, or regeneration.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item offers a strong blend of survivability and damage: after using an ability your next basic attack is empowered to deal bonus damage based on the target’s max health, and it heals you when used on enemy champions. Perfect for fighter-bruisiers and solo laners who weave abilities into autos and need sustain versus tanks and duelists.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage
+300 Max Health
+70 Ability Power
Torment: Damaging abilities and empowered attacks burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage for 3 seconds.
Madness: Deals 2% more damage for each second in combat against champions, capped at 6% after 3 seconds.
3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item excels in extended fights. Your abilities and empowered attacks ignite enemies, dealing damage over time based on their maximum health, while your overall damage steadily increases the longer you remain in combat. It is an excellent choice for damage-over-time mages and AP bruisers who want to wear down even the toughest frontline champions.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage
+40 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
Thirst:
+10% Omni Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 7%
of the enemy's current Health
on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 10%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed
for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a powerful tool for shredding enemy health and staying alive in extended fights. It grants attack power and attack speed, turning your basic hits into sustained damage that scales with the target’s current health — ideal against tanks and high-HP builds. Its active grants a strong slow and steals movement speed from the target, helping you chase or lock down priority targets. The lifesteal-like sustain it provides makes it a solid pick for champions who want to outlast opponents in prolonged exchanges.
Quicksilver Sash
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.25 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): When the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects.
1100
Quicksilver Sash TIPS: This enchant instantly removes most crowd control effects and briefly grants immunity to further disables. Once the effect ends, it provides increased resistance to crowd control and slows, helping you escape dangerous situations or continue fighting without interruption. It is an excellent choice against teams with heavy crowd control, allowing you to stay mobile and effective in crucial moments.
Zhonya's Hourglass
Turn invulnerable
+40 Armor
+110 Ability Power
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (90s Cooldown)
3300
Zhonya's Hourglass TIPS: This item combines high Ability Power with extra armor, while its defining feature is the ability to become completely invulnerable for a short time. Its active effect allows you to survive lethal damage, avoid crucial enemy abilities, or buy time for your cooldowns to recover. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP assassins who need to outlive enemy focus and turn the tide of a teamfight.
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Exhaust
Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed by 35% and their damage dealt by 40% for 2.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 100s
Serylda’s Grudge
Armor Penetration (%) and apply slows
+40 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Last Whisper: Gain
+33% Armor Penetration.
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 1 second.
Frostbite: Apply Frostbite to enemies slowed by Icy for 6s. At 3 Frostbite stacks, all stacks are consumed to apply bleed, dealing (5 + 1-15 (
) + 15% bonus
) physical damage over 2s. Also applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3s. (5s cooldown per target)
3300
Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item blends heavy armor penetration with crowd control: your active abilities and empowered hits slow targets, and repeated slows trigger a bleed that also applies grievous wounds. Perfect for champions who need to kite, execute priority targets, and curb their healing.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Abilities apply slows
+350 Max Health
+65 Ability Power
Icy: Damaging abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 0.75 second.
2700
Rylai's Crystal Scepter TIPS: This item enhances your crowd control by causing your abilities and empowered attacks to slow enemies with every hit. The bonus health improves your durability, while the consistent slow makes it much easier to land follow-up abilities, chase fleeing targets, and support your teammates. It is an excellent choice for damage-over-time mages and champions who rely on keeping enemies within the range of their abilities.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area and creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Shield
+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 100 plus 90% bonus
and gain size, decayng over 2.5s. (60s Cooldown)
2900
Gargoyle Stoneplate TIPS: This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the Jungle Line DARIUS. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Long Sword. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Long Sword
+12 Attack Damage
500
Trinity Force
Well-Rounded
+333 Max Health
+30 Attack Damage
+30% Attack Speed
+20 Ability Haste
Fervor:
+5% Move Speed.
Spellblade: Using an ability causes the next attack used within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to 200% base AD
(1.5s Cooldown). Damage is reduced vs structures.
Valor: Attacks grant 20 Move Speed for 2 seconds. Bonuses do not stack. Ranged champions gain halved values.
3333
Trinity Force TIPS: This item provides a well-rounded set of stats and enhances damage through the combination of abilities and basic attacks. It is ideal for champions who frequently weave abilities between attacks and rely on consistent trading. It works best on fighters and some mobile carries where versatility, speed, and burst damage in short skirmishes are important.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Spear of Shojin
Gain damage bonuses
+450 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
Dragonforce:
+20% Ability Haste.
Focused Will: Dealing damage to monsters or enemies with abilities increases your champion’s ability and passive damage by 3% for 6s. (Stacks 4 times).
3100
Spear of Shojin TIPS: This item provides a mix of survivability and empowered ability usage: it increases your staying power, reduces ability cooldowns, and temporarily boosts your ability and passive damage after engaging enemies or clearing monsters. Perfect for duelist bruisers who want to cast more often in fights and gain an edge in extended skirmishes or split-push scenarios. Suited for champions who weave autos with frequent ability casts.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Mercury's Treads
Increases Magic resist
+150 Max Health
+25 Magic Resistance
+15 Tenacity
+45 Move Speed
1200
Mercury's Treads TIPS: These boots increase your Magic Resistance while making you more resilient to crowd control through Tenacity. The bonus Health and movement speed improve both survivability and mobility, allowing you to perform more effectively against magic damage and heavy-CC team compositions. They are an excellent choice for tanks, fighters, and any champion who needs to stay in the fight longer.
Armored Advance
Grants Armor and a shield
+150 Max Health
+35 Armor
+45 Move Speed
Block: Reduce damage from champion attacks by 10%.
Noxian Endurance: After taking physical damage from a champion grants a physical shield that absorbs damage equal to 10-140 plus 8% max Health
. (12s Cooldown)
2200
Armored Advance TIPS: These boots provide excellent protection against physical damage. They reduce damage taken from enemy champion attacks and grant a protective shield after taking physical damage from a champion, helping you survive extended trades and heavy bursts of physical damage. They are an excellent choice against marksmen, fighters, and other champions who rely primarily on physical attacks.
Chainlaced Crushers
Gain a magic shield upon taking magic damage
+150 Max Health
+35 Magic Resistance
+30% Tenacity
+45 Move Speed
Noxian Persistence: After taking magic damage from a champion, gain a magic shield that absorbs 10-120 plus 5% max
for 5s. (12s Cooldown)
2200
Chainlaced Crushers TIPS: These boots greatly improve your survivability against magic damage. After taking magic damage from an enemy champion, you gain a magic shield that helps absorb follow-up spells, while the bonus Magic Resistance and Tenacity make you far more resilient against AP threats and crowd control. They are an excellent choice against teams with heavy magic damage and strong CC.
Trinity Force (Well-Rounded) as your first item, followed by
Plated Steelcaps (Reduces damage from champion attacks) or
Mercury's Treads (Reduces Magic Damage) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is
Spear of Shojin (Gain damage bonuses).
Armored Advance (Grants Armor and a shield). You may want to replace it with
Chainlaced Crushers (Gain a magic shield upon taking magic damage), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
Trinity Force
Well-Rounded
+333 Max Health
+30 Attack Damage
+30% Attack Speed
+20 Ability Haste
Fervor:
+5% Move Speed.
Spellblade: Using an ability causes the next attack used within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to 200% base AD
(1.5s Cooldown). Damage is reduced vs structures.
Valor: Attacks grant 20 Move Speed for 2 seconds. Bonuses do not stack. Ranged champions gain halved values.
3333
Trinity Force TIPS: This item provides a well-rounded set of stats and enhances damage through the combination of abilities and basic attacks. It is ideal for champions who frequently weave abilities between attacks and rely on consistent trading. It works best on fighters and some mobile carries where versatility, speed, and burst damage in short skirmishes are important.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Spear of Shojin
Gain damage bonuses
+450 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
Dragonforce:
+20% Ability Haste.
Focused Will: Dealing damage to monsters or enemies with abilities increases your champion’s ability and passive damage by 3% for 6s. (Stacks 4 times).
3100
Spear of Shojin TIPS: This item provides a mix of survivability and empowered ability usage: it increases your staying power, reduces ability cooldowns, and temporarily boosts your ability and passive damage after engaging enemies or clearing monsters. Perfect for duelist bruisers who want to cast more often in fights and gain an edge in extended skirmishes or split-push scenarios. Suited for champions who weave autos with frequent ability casts.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
3100
Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Stridebreaker
Slows enemies nearby after a short dash
+400 Max Health
+40 Attack Damage
+15% Attack Speed
Breaking Shockwave (Active): Activate to dash a short distance, dealing 100% AD
as Physical Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 40% for 3s (25s cooldown)
Stride (Passive): Gain 20 Movement Speed for 2 second(s) when you deal physical damage.
3100
Stridebreaker TIPS: This item combines mobility, damage, and crowd control, making it easier to stick to your targets. Its active lets you dash a short distance, damage nearby enemies, and heavily slow them, while the passive grants bonus movement speed whenever you deal physical damage. It is an excellent choice for fighters and bruisers who want to engage quickly, chase down opponents, and keep enemies within melee range.
Stridebreaker — This item combines mobility, damage, and crowd control, making it easier to stick to your targets. Its active lets you dash a short distance, damage nearby enemies, and heavily slow them, while the passive grants bonus movement speed whenever you deal physical damage. It is an excellent choice for fighters and bruisers who want to engage quickly, chase down opponents, and keep enemies within melee range.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Shield
+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 100 plus 90% bonus
and gain size, decayng over 2.5s. (60s Cooldown)
2900
Gargoyle Stoneplate TIPS: This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
Gargoyle Stoneplate — This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
3100
Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Chempunk Chainsword
Reduces enemy healing
+400 Max Health
+45 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Punishment: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2800
Chempunk Chainsword TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Chempunk Chainsword — This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
3100
Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Overlord's Bloodmail
Gain Attack Damage when losing Health
+450 Max Health
+30 Attack Damage
Tyranny: Gain Attack Damage equal to 2.5% of your bonus Health.
Retribution: Gain up to 9% increased Attack Damage based on your missing Health. Maximum Retribution bonus while below 30% Health.
3200
Overlord's Bloodmail TIPS: This item converts bonus health into attack power and ramps up your damage when you drop into dangerous HP ranges — a hybrid pick for players who want to be both tanky and threatening. It suits bruisers and solo laners who stack health and embrace high-risk, high-reward skirmishes: the more bonus health you have, the stronger your raw attacks become, and when you fight at low health you deal amplified damage. Great for aggressive duelists who win trades by trading survivability for burst.
Overlord's Bloodmail — This item converts bonus health into attack power and ramps up your damage when you drop into dangerous HP ranges — a hybrid pick for players who want to be both tanky and threatening. It suits bruisers and solo laners who stack health and embrace high-risk, high-reward skirmishes: the more bonus health you have, the stronger your raw attacks become, and when you fight at low health you deal amplified damage. Great for aggressive duelists who win trades by trading survivability for burst.
Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
3100
Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Dead Man's Plate — This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Death's Dance
Delays damage taken
+35 Attack Damage
+40 Armor
+15 Ability Haste
Defy: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 8% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 27% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 3 seconds as true damage instead.
3100
Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Thornmail — This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 30% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Randuin's Omen — This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor
+60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor
by 30% and Magic Resistance
by 30% until out of combat with champion.
3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Kaenic Rookern
Gains a magic shield when out of combat
+350 Max Health
+100% Health Regen
+75 Magic Resistance
Magebane: After not taking magic damage for 12 seconds, gain a magic shield that absorbs damage equal to 70-180 + 10% of max Health
.
2800
Kaenic Rookern TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Kaenic Rookern — This item is perfect for champions who need extra protection against magic damage, particularly when spending some time out of combat. It provides significant bonuses to health, regeneration, and magic resistance. The “Magebane” passive activates after 12 seconds without taking magic damage, granting you a magic shield that absorbs damage based on your maximum health. This allows you to safely recover between fights and confidently re-enter combat. It’s especially effective against teams heavy in AP damage.
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and
Smite as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Smite
Deal 600 true damage to monsters, epic monsters or enemy minions. Smiting a monster restore 127 Health (70 + 10%
). Smite upgrades to Chilling Smite after 3 uses.
Jungle Expertise:
Earn 20% bonus gold and 20% bonus XP from monsters kills, but temporarily earn 60% less gold and XP from minions kills.
Deal 15% more attack damage and 30% more ability damage against monsters.
Restore 40 Health over 5 seconds after dealing damage to monsters.
Restore 4 Mana every second while in the jungle or river.
From 11:00 onward, monster kills will no longer grant bonus gold.
At 2:00, the attack damage bonus against monsters will start to decay.
At 5:00, it will be removed.
Gains one charge every 45 seconds, up to a max of 2.
Cooldown: 10s
Сhilling Smite
Deal 1000 true damage to a large or epic monster or minion. Smiting monsters restore 152 Health (70 + 10%
).
Against champions: Deal 40 true damage to enemy Champions and steals 25% of their Movement Speed for 2 seconds.
Cooldown: 10s
Phase Rush (Hitting the enemy champion(s) with basic attacks or abilities multiple times grants Movement Speed and Ability Haste.) as your keystone, followed by
Battle Zeal (While in combat with an enemy champion, gain basic ability damage amplification against them.),
Coup de Grace (Increases damage dealt to enemy champions with low Health.) and
Legend: Alacrity (Gains Attack Speed.) in the primary tree, as well as
Overgrowth (Gains bonus scalable max Health.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Phase Rush
Mobility, Ability Haste
Using basic attacks or abilities on an enemy champion 3 time(s) within 4s grants
Movement Speed and reduces the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.
Duration: 3s.
Movement Speed bonus: Melee - 40%-60% (
) | Ranged - 20-35% (
).
Ability Haste: 10.
Slow Resist: 60%.
Cooldown: 21-7s (
)
Battle Zeal
Increase damage during prolonged battles
Gain 1.4% stacking basic ability damage amplification every 1 second(s) while in combat with a champion. Stacks up to 3 times and only takes effect against enemy champions.
Coup de Grace
Increase damage to low Health enemies
Your attacks deal 8% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with less than 40% Health.
Legend: Alacrity
Increase bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 18% Attack Speed.
Overgrowth
Increase max Health
For every 3 enemy minions or 3 monster(s) killed nearby, permanently gain 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely this way. Gain an additional 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Phase Rush
Mobility, Ability Haste
Using basic attacks or abilities on an enemy champion 3 time(s) within 4s grants
Movement Speed and reduces the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.
Duration: 3s.
Movement Speed bonus: Melee - 40%-60% (
) | Ranged - 20-35% (
).
Ability Haste: 10.
Slow Resist: 60%.
Cooldown: 21-7s (
)
Fleet Footwork
Mobility, Heal
Moving, attacking and casting builds Energy stacks. At 100 stacks, your next attack gains Attack Speed, heals you, grants bonus
Movement Speed. If the attack is again st a champion, it also restores Mana or Energy.
Bonus Attack Speed: 40%
Health Restore: 15-110 (
) + 15% bonus
+ 10%
.
Bonus Movement Speed: 20% for 1s.
When attacking a champion, restore 8% missing mana
or 8% missing energy
.
When attacking minions or monsters, heals for 35% (Melee champions) or 15% (Ranged champions) of the original heal amount.
Fleet Footwork — The rune is perfect for champions who need to sustain themselves in extended fights, such as Jhin or Vayne. It allows building Energy stacks through attacks and abilities, and upon reaching 100 stacks, it provides bonus attack speed, healing, and movement speed. The rune is ideal for champions who need to survive in lane or jungles, as it restores mana or energy when attacking enemies, and also heals when attacking minions or monsters.
Coup de Grace
Increase damage to low Health enemies
Your attacks deal 8% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with less than 40% Health.
Cut Down
Deal more damage to high Health enemies
Your attacks deal 6.57% bonus adaptive damage to enemy champions with more than 60% Health.
Cut Down — This rune increases damage against high-health targets, helping you deal with tanky enemies more effectively. It is ideal for champions who rely on consistent damage output, especially against tanks and durable fighters. It works best on marksmen and some fighters where efficiently shredding high-health targets is important.
Legend: Alacrity
Increase bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 18% Attack Speed.
Legend: Tenacity
Increase Tenacity and Slow Resist
Gains 3% Tenacity and 3% Slow Resist. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 15% Tenacity and 20% Slow Resist.
Legend: Tenacity — The rune increases your tenacity by 3% and slow resistance by 3%. By taking down monsters, enemy champions, or minions, you gain up to an additional 15% tenacity and 20% slow resistance. This rune is perfect for champions who often face crowd control in fights, such as fighters or tanks. It helps reduce the duration of crowd control effects, enhancing survivability in team fights.
Overgrowth
Increase max Health
For every 3 enemy minions or 3 monster(s) killed nearby, permanently gain 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely this way. Gain an additional 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Bone Plating
Anti-Burst Damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 (
) less damage.
Cooldown: 40s
Bone Plating — The rune reduces damage from enemy attacks and abilities when you take damage from an enemy champion. It lowers damage from the next few attacks or abilities for a short period, making it useful for most champions, including tanks, fighters, and even some mages. The rune helps improve survivability by mitigating damage in critical moments of the fight, making it suitable for heroes who find themselves in the heart of battles.
(Q) DECIMATE
9.5/8/6.5/5s
35/40/45/50
Swings his axe after a delay, dealing 45 physical damage (18/32/46/60 + 35/40/45/50%
).
Hitting enemies with the blade of the axe deals 127 physical damage (50/90/130/170 + 100/115/130/145%
), heals himself for 15% of his missing Health for each champion hit (max 45%) and applies Hemorrhage.
(W) CRIPPLING STRIKE
5.5s
30/30/30/30
Empowers his next attack to deal an additional 21 physical damage (30/40/50/60%
) and slows by 90% for 1 second.
(E) APPREHEND
18/16/14/12s
45
Passive: Gains 15/22/29/36% Armor Penetration.
Active: Pulls in enemies in front of him, slowing them by 40% for 1.5 second.
(R) NOXIAN GUILLOTINE
70/65/60s
100/100/0
Leaps to execute a champion. Deals 125 true damage (125/250/375 + 75% bonus
) increased by 20% per Hemorrhage stack, and applies Hemorrhage.
Killing the target with Noxian Guilotine refreshes its cooldown, mana cost, and grants Noxian Might for 5 seconds and causes nearby minions and monsters to flee for 1.5 seconds.
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the Jungle DARIUS. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
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We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter Jungle DARIUS in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces damage from champion attacks
+150 Max Health
+20 Armor
+45 Move Speed
1200
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide reliable protection against physical damage, especially from enemy basic attacks. The bonus Armor, Health, and movement speed improve your durability, allowing you to survive longer against marksmen and AD fighters. They are an excellent choice against teams that rely heavily on auto attacks for their damage.
Randuin's Omen
Counters Critical Strike Damage
+400 Max Health
+75 Armor
Resilience: Critically Struck deal 30% less damage to you.
Countercurrent: Gain 1 stacks of Countercurrent when Critically Struck by physical damage. Each stuck grants 5% Movement Speed and 5% slow resist. Max 4 stacks.
2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: This item is built to counter crit-heavy builds. It provides a large health pool and armor while reducing damage from critical strikes, making you much tougher in head-on engagements. When you are critically struck, you gain stacks that boost your movement and slow resistance, helping you hold position and control fight spacing. — Perfect for tanks and bruisers who need to stand up to high-crit auto-attackers and survive extended teamfights.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed
+350 Max Health
+70 Armor
Relentless:
+5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 75% for 1 second.
2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380
) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Executioner's Calling
Physical Damage reduces enemy healing
+15 Attack Damage
Rend: Physical Damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds. Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
800
Oblivion Orb
Magic damage reduces enemy healing
+35 Ability Power
Cursed Wounds: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions applies 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
800
Bramble Vest
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+30 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 4 magic damage + 6% bonus armor
to the attacker and inflict 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds if they are a champion.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
1000
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing
+25 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper:
+30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional
6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Chempunk Chainsword
Reduces enemy healing
+400 Max Health
+45 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Punishment: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2800
Chempunk Chainsword TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing
+300 Max Health
+75 Ability Power
+15 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2650
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is designed to counter champions with strong healing and sustain. Any magic damage you deal applies Grievous Wounds, greatly reducing the effectiveness of enemy healing and regeneration. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP supports against teams that rely heavily on healing, lifesteal, or regeneration.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing
+200 Max Health
+75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor
+ 1% bonus Health
magic damage to the attacker.
Entwine: Apply 50% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 second(s) when stuck by their attacks or dealing damage to them.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item reflects a portion of incoming physical damage back to attackers as magic damage and applies an effect that reduces enemy healing effectiveness. A strong pick versus teams with heavy auto-attack damage and sustain — ideal for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb focus and cut down opponent healing.
Divine Sunderer
Anti-Health attacks
+425 Max Health
+25 Attack Damage
+25 Ability Haste
Spellblade: After using an ability, your next attack within 10 seconds deals (10% melee / 7% ranged) of target’s maximum health as bonus physical damage. If the target is a champion, heal for (6% melee / 2.5% ranged) of the target's maximum health. (1.5s Cooldown) Damage is reduced vs structure.
3400
Divine Sunderer TIPS: This item offers a strong blend of survivability and damage: after using an ability your next basic attack is empowered to deal bonus damage based on the target’s max health, and it heals you when used on enemy champions. Perfect for fighter-bruisiers and solo laners who weave abilities into autos and need sustain versus tanks and duelists.
Liandry's Torment
Abilities deal bonus damage
+300 Max Health
+70 Ability Power
Torment: Damaging abilities and empowered attacks burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage for 3 seconds.
Madness: Deals 2% more damage for each second in combat against champions, capped at 6% after 3 seconds.
3000
Liandry's Torment TIPS: This item excels in extended fights. Your abilities and empowered attacks ignite enemies, dealing damage over time based on their maximum health, while your overall damage steadily increases the longer you remain in combat. It is an excellent choice for damage-over-time mages and AP bruisers who want to wear down even the toughest frontline champions.
Blade of the Ruined King
Attacks deal bonus damage
+40 Attack Damage
+35% Attack Speed
Thirst:
+10% Omni Vamp.
Ruined Strikes: Attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 7%
of the enemy's current Health
on-hit. (Melee attacks deal 10%). Minion damage: 15. Max damage vs monsters: 60.
Drain: Hitting a champion with 3 attacks or abilities deals 30-100 bonus magic damage and steals 25% of their Move Speed
for 2 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
3000
Blade of the Ruined King TIPS: This item is a powerful tool for shredding enemy health and staying alive in extended fights. It grants attack power and attack speed, turning your basic hits into sustained damage that scales with the target’s current health — ideal against tanks and high-HP builds. Its active grants a strong slow and steals movement speed from the target, helping you chase or lock down priority targets. The lifesteal-like sustain it provides makes it a solid pick for champions who want to outlast opponents in prolonged exchanges.
Quicksilver Sash
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.25 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): When the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects.
1100
Quicksilver Sash TIPS: This enchant instantly removes most crowd control effects and briefly grants immunity to further disables. Once the effect ends, it provides increased resistance to crowd control and slows, helping you escape dangerous situations or continue fighting without interruption. It is an excellent choice against teams with heavy crowd control, allowing you to stay mobile and effective in crucial moments.
Zhonya's Hourglass
Turn invulnerable
+40 Armor
+110 Ability Power
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (90s Cooldown)
3300
Zhonya's Hourglass TIPS: This item combines high Ability Power with extra armor, while its defining feature is the ability to become completely invulnerable for a short time. Its active effect allows you to survive lethal damage, avoid crucial enemy abilities, or buy time for your cooldowns to recover. It is an excellent choice for mages and AP assassins who need to outlive enemy focus and turn the tide of a teamfight.
Cleanse
Removes disables (including spell debuffs) affecting your champion and grants immunity to disables for 0.25 seconds.
Cooldown: 110s
Exhaust
Exhausts target enemy champion, reducing their Movement Speed by 35% and their damage dealt by 40% for 2.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 100s
Serylda’s Grudge
Armor Penetration (%) and apply slows
+40 Attack Damage
+15 Ability Haste
Last Whisper: Gain
+33% Armor Penetration.
Icy: Damaging active abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 1 second.
Frostbite: Apply Frostbite to enemies slowed by Icy for 6s. At 3 Frostbite stacks, all stacks are consumed to apply bleed, dealing (5 + 1-15 (
) + 15% bonus
) physical damage over 2s. Also applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3s. (5s cooldown per target)
3300
Serylda’s Grudge TIPS: This item blends heavy armor penetration with crowd control: your active abilities and empowered hits slow targets, and repeated slows trigger a bleed that also applies grievous wounds. Perfect for champions who need to kite, execute priority targets, and curb their healing.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Abilities apply slows
+350 Max Health
+65 Ability Power
Icy: Damaging abilities and empowered attacks slow enemies by 30% for 0.75 second.
2700
Rylai's Crystal Scepter TIPS: This item enhances your crowd control by causing your abilities and empowered attacks to slow enemies with every hit. The bonus health improves your durability, while the consistent slow makes it much easier to land follow-up abilities, chase fleeing targets, and support your teammates. It is an excellent choice for damage-over-time mages and champions who rely on keeping enemies within the range of their abilities.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field
+250 Max Health
+50 Armor
+250 Max Mana
+30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD
+ 25% Bonus Armor
) in an area and creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures.
3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Sterak's Gage
Taking damage triggers a shield
+400 Max Health
Heavy Handed: +50% base Attack Damage as bonus Attack Damage.
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35%
Health grants a shield that equal to 75% of your bonus health
that decays over 3 seconds (75s Cooldown).
Sterak's Fury: Triggering Lifeline increases size, empowers you, removes all crowd control effects on you (except Airborne), and grants 30% Tenacity for 4 seconds.
3200
Sterak's Gage TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need survivability in team fights, especially for tanks and fighters who take frontline positions. It provides bonuses to maximum health, attack damage, and helps increase your survivability. The "Lifeline" effect activates when your health drops below 35%, granting a shield that absorbs damage, helping you survive heavy hits. "Sterak's Fury" empowers you, increases your size, removes crowd control effects (except airborne), and grants 30% tenacity for 4 seconds, allowing you to survive and continue fighting through heavy crowd control and burst damage from enemies. This item is especially useful against champions with burst damage, such as Zed and Talon, and against champions with heavy CC, like Lissandra and Nautilus.
Gargoyle Stoneplate
Shield
+200 Max Health
+45 Armor
+45 Magic Resistance
+10 Ability Haste
Stoneplate (Active): Gain a base shield that absorbs damage equal to 100 plus 90% bonus
and gain size, decayng over 2.5s. (60s Cooldown)
2900
Gargoyle Stoneplate TIPS: This item greatly increases your survivability during teamfights. Its active grants a powerful shield that scales with your bonus Health, allowing you to withstand heavy focus fire and remain on the frontline longer. It is an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need to absorb large amounts of damage while protecting their team.
Jungle Pathing represents the choices Junglers make in regards to when and where to gank. These choices include how they involve farming camps and buffs between their ganks, anticipating counterganks, and looking for opportunities to invade. It involves understanding the different abilities the champions in the game have and how they interact, as well as the overall interactions between the two team compositions.
Gromp
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Blue Sentinel
Large Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 150 second(s).
The Blue Sentinel, sometimes called the blue buff, is a common starting monster for junglers thanks to its powerful Crest of Insight buff.
REWARDS
Upon dealing the killing blow to the Blue Sentinel, the player will receive the Crest of Insight Buff effect that lasts 90 seconds. Recover an amount of Mana or Energy every second.
Get 15 Ability Haste.
When a player who possesses the Crest of Insight buff is defeated by an enemy champion, the buff is transferred to the champion who defeated that player.
Greater Murk Wolf
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
Wolves tend to be easier and safer to bees at than other monsters. They are commonly s ight by junglers when passing by or while the higher priority monsters are respawning.
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Crimson Raptor
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
Crimson raptors deal surprising damage t but the small ones can be quickly dispatched. Junglers commonly seek them out while pre| to gank the middle lane or while waiting for hi; priority monsters to spawn.
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Red Brambleback
Large Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 150 second(s).
After completing the final strike to the Red Brambleback, you can obtain the Crest of Cinders buff effect; when the player with this buff is defeated, the buff effect will be transferred to the enemy champion who defeated them.
REWARDS
Upon dealing the killing blow to the Red Brambleback, the player will receive the Crest of Cinders Buff that lasts 90 seconds.
For Melee Champions, basic attacks burn targets on hit, reducing their movement speed by 20% for 3 seconds, and dealing True Damage every second. For non-Champion units, this only deals 50% of the burn damage.
For Ranged Champions, basic attacks burn targets on hit, reducing their Movement Speed by 6% for 3 seconds, and dealing True Damage every second. For non-Champion units, this only deals 50% of the burn damage.
When a player who possesses the Crest of Cinders buff is defeated by an enemy champion, the bufs is transferred to the champion who defeated player.
Ancient Krug
Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 20 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 110 second(s).
Ancient Krugs split into two upon defeat until they are so small they can split no more. Junglers oftem fight these monsters for extra gold and XP while waiting for gank opportunities or higher priority monster spawns.
REWARDS
Earn XP and gold upon defeating them.
Rift Scuttler
Large Monster
ABOUT
Spawn time: 85 second(s) into game.
Respawn interval: 120 second(s).
REWARDS
The Rift Scuttler grants XP and gold on takedown. A Speed Shrine also spawns at a fixed location on the same side of the river which provides the following buffs to your team:
Grants vision of the area.
Vision radius: 4.5m. Enemy champions who pass through this area will be maked and revealed.
Allied champions who pass through the area receive a 40% out-of-co Movement Speed boost for 2 second(s).
This Pro Darius Jungle Path features a full camp clear with a Blue Buff start and unlocking the (Q) DECIMATE skill at level one once again. After you've killed the Blue Sentinel and unlocked (W) CRIPPLING STRIKE, kill the Gromp and Murk Wolves for level three. Unlock (E) APPREHEND and path into the Red Buff side of the jungle to clear the Raptors, Red Brambleback and Krugs. Doing so grants you level four, upgrading (Q) DECIMATE. After all those camps are cleared head over to the river and kill the Rift Scuttler, and now you can attempt a gank onto one of the lanes that is easiest to get a kill on.
HEMORRHAGE
DECIMATE
CRIPPLING STRIKE
APPREHEND
NOXIAN GUILLOTINE

Attacks cause enemies to bleed, dealing 18~46 physical damage (
) + 40% bonus
) over 5 seconds. Can stack up to 5 times.
Upon reaching full stacks, Darius gains Noxian Might for 5 seconds, gaining 32~236 Attack Damage (
) and applying full stacks of Hemorrhage instead of 1.
Deals 180% dmg to monsters.

9.5/8/6.5/5s
35/40/45/50
Swings his axe after a delay, dealing 45 physical damage (18/32/46/60 + 35/40/45/50%
).
Hitting enemies with the blade of the axe deals 127 physical damage (50/90/130/170 + 100/115/130/145%
), heals himself for 15% of his missing Health for each champion hit (max 45%) and applies Hemorrhage.

70/65/60s
100/100/0
Leaps to execute a champion. Deals 125 true damage (125/250/375 + 75% bonus
) increased by 20% per Hemorrhage stack, and applies Hemorrhage.
Killing the target with Noxian Guilotine refreshes its cooldown, mana cost, and grants Noxian Might for 5 seconds and causes nearby minions and monsters to flee for 1.5 seconds.
Use this combo to reposition during (R) NOXIAN GUILLOTINE. Can also be used to disengage.
Begin with (E) APPREHEND, AA then (W) CRIPPLING STRIKE as an auto attack reset. Reposition while channeling your (Q) DECIMATE. Follow up with AA's until the enemy is at 5 Hemorrhage stacks. Use (R) NOXIAN GUILLOTINE then FLASH to reposition onto another priority target or to disengage. AA then cast (R) again to apply max Hemorrhage stacks on the enemy.
There is no greater symbol of Noxian might than Darius, the nation's most feared and battle-hardened commander. Rising from humble origins to become the Hand of Noxus, he cleaves through the empire's enemies—many of them Noxians themselves. Knowing that he never doubts his cause is just, and never hesitates once his axe is raised, those who stand against the leader of the Trifarian Legion can expect no mercy.