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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Darius vs. Rumble matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rumble..
Darius usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rumble. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually loses when playing against Rumble, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Darius makes a bad counter for Rumble.
While Darius does have a lower winrate compared to Rumble, when they face off with one another, Darius also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Darius into Rumble.
Additionally, Darius has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rumble. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Darius vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Darius is a somewhat poor counter to Rumble. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Darius against Rumble.
If you would like to truly master Darius in order to counter Rumble during both the laning 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 tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Darius versus Rumble build include Trinity Force, Force of Nature, and Sundered Sky. When Darius included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Rumble than with many other typical builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 48.9% battling Rumble with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Rumble as Darius, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Darius vs Rumble fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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