Hi there, my name is Raider, I've been playing League since Season 3.

I'm a multi seasonal Challenger player who is widely known for my 1v9 and consistent playstyle along with being known as one of the best laners on EUW.

I am widely known for my Darius, Jax, Camille and Olaf with whom I've reached Challenger on all four of these champions and I'm also a Pro player since 2021.

In the present, I'm focusing on mostly content creation and coaching along with providing my viewers with the best gameplay possible.

I'm also known for my Season 14 Challenger Darius Guide.

Achievements through my SoloQ Journey:

•First off is the early game.
Darius is one of the strongest early game top laners in the game, which means he has lane authority most of the time. That being said, the goal with this champion is to maximize your gold generation and kill pressure to the fullest.
So, in early game, your must is to create a lane state that lets you scale like freezing or slow pushing which puts enemies in a position where they are in danger of getting ganked or you running them down with ghost.
If you apply this, your wave will be very big because of slow pushing which will discourage junglers from ganking your lane since Darius can turn a lot of 1v2 situations into double kills because his passive that gives him large amounts of AD once it's fully stacked.

As for trading in early game,
1. First off you trade by using your Q a lot to poke the enemy champion but at the same time avoid hitting the minions to not break the freeze or speed up the push unnecessary.
2. Second, when you pull the enemy laner towards you with E, you should ghost if you're planning to ALL IN them, but ideally you should try keeping it unless you really need to use it.
You shouldn't always rely on starting a fight with your E, what you should do instead is try walking up or ghosting towards them and get your stacks, then use your pull once they decide to use their escape. This way you secure the kill.


•Second off is the mid/late game.
With Darius, you want to stay in the side-lane as much as possible because your champion can only fight with his summoners up because he really lacks mobility.
So, you want to,
1. Spend most of your time split pushing to get yourself ahead as much as possible in XP and Gold.
2. Taking enemy camps along with your own camps when your jungler is on the opposite side of the map.
3. And finally, abuse the fact that the enemy top laner leaves you alone.
You only want to group for team-fights when objectives are coming up and when you have pushed out your wave on side. Otherwise, you just continue doing your own thing.
The reason behind my success with the champion in Solo-Q is my really high CS/minute, and me always being a few levels ahead of everyone.


For the team-fights, you can play the fights in two ways:
1- Focus on one target to get your 5 stacks then transition them over the rest of the targets
2- Use your ult to execute someone low and get your stacks right away.
Basically, in most situations the way you want to play as Darius in fights, is start them slow and the second you get your 5 stacks you go full in.

This is one of my first attempts at a guide. I really hope I managed to help you all out with at least some useful information. I would appreciate any feedback regarding this guide since I'm planning to make more for my other champions.

If you really enjoy talking about Darius and/or got further questions I'll be happy to answer them on my Twitch stream.