Lee Sin vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Lee Sin
based on 3,996 Lee Sin vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Darius
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Lee Sin vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some strategic Lee Sin vs. Darius counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Darius..
Lee Sin normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Darius. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Darius
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Darius?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when taking on Darius, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Lee Sin makes a bad counter to Darius.
While Lee Sin does have a lower win rate than Darius, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Lee Sin into Darius.
Additionally, Lee Sin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Lee Sin is a somewhat poor counter to Darius. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lee Sin to counter Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin typically accumulates a lot less CS as Darius. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Lee Sin versus Darius build consist of Guardian Angel, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Darius than with many other common item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Darius with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Darius as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Lee Sin vs Darius matchups, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% win rate overall.
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