Darius·Mid Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Darius Mid build, you should take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Stormraider's Surge as your keystone, followed by Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, as well as Legend: Alacrity and Triumph in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Dead Man's Plate. For your last 3 items, you should build Death's Dance, Sterak's Gage and finish with Randuin's Omen. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 50.8% winrate over 512 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Axiom Arcanist with Celerity in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Stridebreaker as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Dead Man's Plate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance and Randuin's Omen. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 50.9% win rate across 159 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Darius Mid build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Grisly Mementos and Ultimate Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Celerity with Axiom Arcanist as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Youmuu's Ghostblade as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Dead Man's Plate as third item. The last 3 options are Death's Dance, Sterak's Gage and Mortal Reminder. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 66.0% win rate over 50 matches played.

Situational Darius Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Darius build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.