Darius Jungle Build, Best Paths & Clearing Guide for Patch 26.7
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RDiscover the best Darius jungle build for League of Legends Patch 26.7. Learn optimal jungle paths, Darius build runes & items, skill order, counters and explore our pathing guide to maximize your winrate in the Season 16 meta.
Jungle Trends
Highest Winrate First Camp
Blue Sentinel (54.7%)
Most Popular First Camp
Red Brambleback (60.6%)
Top 3 Highest Winrate Paths
Top 3 Highest Popularity Paths
Darius Tips and Tricks
- Hemorrhage is crucial for maximizing Darius's damage. Apply stacks by auto-attacking and using abilities on enemy champions as well as jungle camps.
- Darius has various combos to maximize damage and apply passive stacks:
- Basic Combo: Crippling Strike → Decimate → Apprehend → Auto-attacks until cooldowns reset.
- All-In Combo: Apprehend → Auto-attack → Crippling Strike → Auto-attack → Decimate → Noxian Guillotine (when the target has five stacks).
- Use Crippling Strike to reset your auto-attack timer, allowing for quick bursts of damage in trades and fights.
- Darius excels in 1v1 situations. Look for early invades against weaker enemy junglers to secure kills and gain an advantage.
- Look for gank opportunities in lanes where enemies are overextended or have low mobility because Darius' CC kit is rather limited.
Darius Matchups
Darius Jungle Pathing Guide
Jungle Pathing represents the choices jungle players make in regards to when and where to gank, invade or just path towards. It includes how camps and buffs are cleared between ganks, anticipating counterganks, and spotting opportunities for invading. Effective pathing requires deep understanding of your champion's abilities, their interactions, and how both team compositions play into those choices.
Full clear with a Red Buff start
The recommended jungle path for Darius starts on Red Buff with Crippling Strike at level one. After Red, unlock Decimate for sustain and clear Krugs, then Raptors. This gets you level three where you can either take Apprehend for ganks or upgrade Decimate for faster clears. From there, path into Wolves, Gromp and Blue Buff. At level four, ensure Apprehend is unlocked before contesting Rift Scuttler.
The route prioritizes a full clear to hit level four in time for Scuttler fights. An alternative start is Blue Buff into Gromp and Wolves, then pathing Red side. This variation grants better mana sustain but delays the clear speed by a bit.
For aggression, Red into Raptors and Krugs can set up an earlier level three with Apprehend available. This opens a quick gank on Bot/Top depending on side.
