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Darius build, with receipts

Top · Items from patches 26.1-26.12

Banned in 14.9% of 1,102,922 ranked games

Most-played choices

What most players pick in each slot.

Most finished three-item core

Youmuu's Ghostblade then Dead Man's Plate then Death's Dance

59.1% · 1,935 games

Win rates count the games where the item set got finished - the receipt for the completed build.

Most-played starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion

31,967 games

First finished item

Stridebreaker

23,397 games

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost

60,721 games

Level 1 skill and first max

W at level 1

49,025 games

Max Q first

76,853 games

Most-played rune page

Conqueror — Precision: Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand + Sorcery: Axiom Arcanist, Celerity; Attack speed / Adaptive force / Health scaling

20,436 games

Full comparisons

Cores, first items, boots and starting items

The finished core

  • Youmuu's Ghostblade then Dead Man's Plate then Death's Dance: 59.1% · 1,935 games
  • Stridebreaker then Sterak's Gage then Dead Man's Plate: 58.8% · 1,819 games
  • Stridebreaker then Dead Man's Plate then Sterak's Gage: 58.1% · 1,132 games
  • Youmuu's Ghostblade then Dead Man's Plate then Force of Nature: 54.8% · 1,124 games
  • Stridebreaker then Dead Man's Plate then Force of Nature: 50.9% · 1,035 games

First finished item

  • Stridebreaker: 49.2% · 23,397 games
  • Youmuu's Ghostblade: 51.3% · 11,654 games
  • Trinity Force: 49.9% · 8,594 games
  • Spear of Shojin: 50.6% · 2,624 games

Boots

  • Plated Steelcaps: 49.5% · 28,537 games
  • Mercury's Treads: 49.4% · 13,346 games
  • Boots of Swiftness: 51.2% · 7,618 games

Starting shop

  • Doran's Blade + Health Potion: 49.7% · 31,967 games
  • Doran's Shield + Health Potion: 48.4% · 13,503 games
  • Doran's Helm + Health Potion: 52.8% · 265 games
Runes, shards and summoner spells

Most played full page

Conqueror — Precision: Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand + Sorcery: Axiom Arcanist, Celerity; Attack speed / Adaptive force / Health scaling. 48.8% · 20,436 games.

Runes

  • Conqueror: 49.3% · 59,459 games
  • Stormraider's Surge: 49.9% · 16,311 games
  • Hail of Blades: 45.8% · 1,713 games
  • Press the Attack: 46.3% · 738 games

Rune trees

  • Precision + Sorcery: 49.6% · 30,977 games
  • Precision + Resolve: 48.8% · 28,583 games
  • Sorcery + Precision: 50.0% · 14,182 games

Stat shards

  • Attack speed / Adaptive force / Health scaling: 48.8% · 58,612 games
  • Attack speed / Adaptive force / Health: 51.3% · 10,774 games

Summoner spells

  • Flash + Ghost: 49.4% · 60,721 games
  • Flash + Ignite: 49.2% · 14,027 games
  • Exhaust + Flash: 51.5% · 2,520 games
Level 1 skill and first max
  • W at level 1: 48.8% · 49,025 games
  • Q at level 1: 50.3% · 27,643 games
  • E at level 1: 46.4% · 2,155 games
  • Max Q first: 49.5% · 76,853 games
  • Max W first: 39.3% · 786 games
  • Max E first: 46.9% · 211 games