Cassiopeia vs Darius Counter Pick

375 units of range separate these two — Cassiopeia at 550, Darius at 175 — and across 199 games on patch 16.13.1 that gap turns into a 55.3% win rate for Cassiopeia.

Darius’s game plan is to stack Hemorrhage, a bleed effect from attacks and abilities that builds up to five stacks and enrages him for bonus damage at max stacks, but that plan requires standing next to his target, which Cassiopeia’s kit is specifically built to prevent. Apprehend passively lets his physical damage ignore a percentage of armor, useful against a squishy target like Cassiopeia at 18 armor early, but only if he can actually reach her.

Cassiopeia’s own poison-and-slow combination from Miasma and Twin Fang wears down a melee bruiser over several seconds without ever entering his attack range, and her passive move speed bonus from Serpentine Grace helps her stay just outside Decimate‘s circular swing. Darius’s execute, Noxian Guillotine, scales with Hemorrhage stacks and deals true damage, so the matchup is genuinely dangerous if he ever closes the gap — but at difficulty 2 against Cassiopeia’s 10, Darius has far less room to force that gap open through outplay. See both champions at Cassiopeia and Darius.