Darius·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Darius Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite 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 Celestial Opposition as your first item, followed by Boots of Swiftness and Youmuu's Ghostblade. For your last 3 items, you should build Dead Man's Plate, Sterak's Gage and finish with Force of Nature. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 41.4% winrate over 70 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Darius Support build would be to take Flash and Ghost as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Stormraider's Surge as your keystone, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity and Gathering Storm in the primary tree, and Legend: Alacrity with Triumph in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Bloodsong, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Youmuu's Ghostblade as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Dead Man's Plate, Force of Nature and Black Cleaver. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 36.2% win rate over 69 matches.

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.