Vi vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Vi
based on 3,926 Vi vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Darius
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Vi in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several important Vi against Darius matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Darius’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Darius..
Vi typically has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Darius. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vi and Darius
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Who is Better, Vi or Darius?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vi usually wins when playing against Darius, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Vi makes a good counter for Darius.
While Vi does have a higher win rate compared to Darius, when they face off with one another, Vi also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vi into Darius.
Moreover, Vi also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vi vs Darius matchups, Vi is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vi is a decent counter to Darius. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Vi against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi to counter Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi typically gets a lot less CS compared to Darius. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Vi versus Darius build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Vi combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Darius than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Vi had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Darius with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Darius as Vi, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Vi vs Darius clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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