Darius vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Darius
based on 3,862 Darius vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Ahri
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Darius vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several influential Darius vs. Ahri counter statistics that can help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ahri..
Darius typically has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Ahri. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Ahri
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Who is Better, Darius or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ahri, with a 50.1% win rate. Thus, Darius makes an ok counter for Ahri.
While Darius does have a higher winrate than Ahri, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Darius into Ahri.
Additionally, Darius also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Darius vs Ahri matchups, Darius is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Darius is a decent counter for Ahri. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Darius against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Darius in order to counter Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ahri. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Darius versus Ahri build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Sundered Sky. When Darius combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Ahri than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing against Ahri with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Ahri as Darius, Darius players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius vs Ahri counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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