# Darius Counters Who counters Darius? Best and worst picks against Darius by win rate, plus the lane counters that lead Darius in gold at 15 minutes. Ranked solo data by role and rank. Canonical HTML: https://baronbuff.com/champions/darius/counters/ Markdown URL: https://baronbuff.com/champions/darius/counters.md Language: en ## Breadcrumbs - [Baron Buff](https://baronbuff.com/) - [Champion Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/) - [Darius](https://baronbuff.com/champions/darius/) ## Page Content [Darius guide](https://baronbuff.com/champions/darius/) [Play against Darius](https://baronbuff.com/champions/darius/how-to-play-against/) [Darius counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/darius/counters/) Best and worst picks against Darius in Top at Gold+, ranked by win rate and by gold lead at 15 minutes. Yorick, Heimerdinger and Volibear beat Darius most often. Varus, Heimerdinger and Jayce win the laning phase against Darius by the widest gold margin. ## Best picks against Darius Highest win rate versus Darius in Top. - 1 [Yorick](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yorick/) 860 games 59.0% - 2 [Heimerdinger](https://baronbuff.com/champions/heimerdinger/) 356 games 58.1% - 3 [Volibear](https://baronbuff.com/champions/volibear/) 628 games 55.1% - 4 [Kayle](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kayle/) 512 games 54.7% - 5 [Gragas](https://baronbuff.com/champions/gragas/) 453 games 54.5% - 6 [Gangplank](https://baronbuff.com/champions/gangplank/) 1,001 games 54.5% - 7 [Malphite](https://baronbuff.com/champions/malphite/) 1,339 games 54.4% - 8 [Riven](https://baronbuff.com/champions/riven/) 504 games 54.0% - 9 [Pantheon](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/) 663 games 53.7% - 10 [Vayne](https://baronbuff.com/champions/vayne/) 630 games 53.6% - 11 [Kennen](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/) 463 games 53.6% - 12 [Swain](https://baronbuff.com/champions/swain/) 144 games 53.5% - 13 [Aurora](https://baronbuff.com/champions/aurora/) 109 games 53.2% - 14 [Mordekaiser](https://baronbuff.com/champions/mordekaiser/) 1,831 games 52.6% - 15 [Sett](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sett/) 2,265 games 52.6% ## Worst picks against Darius Lowest win rate versus Darius in Top. - 1 [Warwick](https://baronbuff.com/champions/warwick/) 125 games 43.2% - 2 [Ryze](https://baronbuff.com/champions/ryze/) 705 games 44.8% - 3 [Yasuo](https://baronbuff.com/champions/yasuo/) 773 games 46.0% - 4 [K'Sante](https://baronbuff.com/champions/ksante/) 730 games 46.2% - 5 [Rumble](https://baronbuff.com/champions/rumble/) 326 games 46.6% - 6 [Tryndamere](https://baronbuff.com/champions/tryndamere/) 486 games 47.1% - 7 [Anivia](https://baronbuff.com/champions/anivia/) 103 games 47.6% - 8 [Irelia](https://baronbuff.com/champions/irelia/) 878 games 47.7% - 9 [Nasus](https://baronbuff.com/champions/nasus/) 1,258 games 48.0% - 10 [Kled](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kled/) 319 games 48.3% - 11 [Ambessa](https://baronbuff.com/champions/ambessa/) 579 games 48.9% ## Best lane counters vs Darius Largest gold lead over Darius at 15 minutes in Top. - 1 [Varus](https://baronbuff.com/champions/varus/) 102 games +636 - 2 [Heimerdinger](https://baronbuff.com/champions/heimerdinger/) 191 games +590 - 3 [Jayce](https://baronbuff.com/champions/jayce/) 229 games +433 - 4 [Irelia](https://baronbuff.com/champions/irelia/) 334 games +407 - 5 [Volibear](https://baronbuff.com/champions/volibear/) 393 games +349 - 6 [Akali](https://baronbuff.com/champions/akali/) 208 games +347 - 7 [Illaoi](https://baronbuff.com/champions/illaoi/) 378 games +318 - 8 [Kennen](https://baronbuff.com/champions/kennen/) 153 games +292 - 9 [Vayne](https://baronbuff.com/champions/vayne/) 375 games +226 - 10 [Sett](https://baronbuff.com/champions/sett/) 951 games +160 - 11 [Aatrox](https://baronbuff.com/champions/aatrox/) 542 games +149 - 12 [Pantheon](https://baronbuff.com/champions/pantheon/) 190 games +134 - 13 [Riven](https://baronbuff.com/champions/riven/) 212 games +132 - 14 [Teemo](https://baronbuff.com/champions/teemo/) 528 games +121 - 15 [Jax](https://baronbuff.com/champions/jax/) 519 games +95 ## How to play against Darius Lane and teamfight rules that hold regardless of your pick. ### In lane and in teamfights - Respect his E range early and avoid long trades while his passive can stack. Farm near your side until he wastes E, then use the cooldown window to last-hit or poke. - Crash the wave after forcing his health or summoner cooldowns low. Leaving the wave frozen near him gives Darius the extended lane he needs. - Kite backward during skirmishes until his passive stacks fall off. Burst or disengage before he reaches the reset point with ult. - Fight him after he uses Q or E on a lower-value target. Denying the outer Q hit removes much of his comeback power in small fights. - Peel him off the first target instead of chasing past him. Darius takes over late fights when he gets passive stacks and ult resets for free. ## Where Darius is weak Exploit these in draft and in lane. - Darius must walk into melee and build bleed stacks, so slows, disengage, and ranged spacing deny his resets. - He has no reliable escape after overextending, making collapses punish the long fights he wants. ## Darius counters: questions ### Who counters Darius in Top? At Gold+, Yorick (59.0%), Heimerdinger (58.1%) and Volibear (55.1%) have the highest win rates against Darius. ### Who does Darius counter? Darius wins most often against Warwick (43.2%), Ryze (44.8%) and Yasuo (46.0%). ### Who wins lane against Darius? By gold lead at 15 minutes, Varus (+636), Heimerdinger (+590) and Jayce (+433) come out of the laning phase furthest ahead of Darius. ### How is the counter list ranked? Best and worst picks use same-lane win rate; lane counters use the average gold difference at 15 minutes between the two laners. Both come from Ranked Solo/Duo at the selected rank with at least 100 games per matchup, and are not adjusted for champion strength. - [Top Tier List](https://baronbuff.com/champions/top/) - [Varus counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/varus/counters/) - [Heimerdinger counters](https://baronbuff.com/champions/heimerdinger/counters/) ## Machine-Readable References - [LLM index](https://baronbuff.com/llms.txt) - [Full LLM reference](https://baronbuff.com/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap](https://baronbuff.com/sitemap.xml)