Darius vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Darius
based on 3,024 Darius vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Darius vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Darius in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several important Darius against Soraka matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Darius typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Soraka. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Soraka
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Who is Better, Darius or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when facing off against Soraka, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Darius makes an ok counter to Soraka.
While Darius does have a higher win rate compared to Soraka, when they face off with one another, Darius also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Darius into Soraka.
Furthermore, Darius also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Darius vs Soraka matchups, Darius is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Darius is a decent counter for Soraka. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Darius against Soraka.
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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 Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius typically accumulates much more CS relative to Soraka. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Darius versus Soraka build consist of Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Soraka than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Darius had an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Soraka as Darius, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Darius vs Soraka LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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