It’s no secret amongst European League of Legends followers that Staff BDS prime laner Adam is a monster on Darius. Apparently, Staff Whales from the VCS by no means acquired that memo, nevertheless, and of their first sport at Worlds 2023, they shortly discovered that the previous Rookie of the Break up is to not be trifled with when he’s on the Hand of Noxus.
Simply 10 minutes into the primary sport of their best-of-three sequence within the play-in stage in the present day, Staff Whales challenged Adam’s Darius within the prime lane, sending three gamers into his area for a gank. Regardless of being almost out of mana, Adam fought again with the assistance of a countergank from his personal jungler, Sheo, and used his degree benefit to chop down Whales’ prime laner Sparda and jungler Bean, who have been enjoying Renekton and Viego, respectively.
Adam chunked down the 2 preliminary gankers with a solid of Decimate (Q) and used the gang management offered by his teammate enjoying Rell to make room for much more harm. Though Adam killed each Sparda and Bean on the prime of the skirmish, they did get his well being down low sufficient that even the slightest quantity of follow-up harm may end him off.
Adam’s destiny gave the impression to be sealed as soon as Whales’ help Bie appeared within the prime lane and used Rakan’s trademark Quickness (R)/Grand Entrance (W) combo to allure and knock up the mighty Darius. However Adam had happily began one other solid of Decimate (Q) a split-second earlier than Rakan’s allure went off. This solid persevered via the allure and allowed Adam to heal himself via the again finish of the skirmish. An eventual third solid of Decimate was weaved in between Darius’ auto assaults, permitting Adam to snowball uncontrolled and put an exclamation level on his laning section.
By the point the struggle got here to an finish, Adam was 5/0/1, whereas his lane opponent Sparda was a depressing 0/4/0 simply 10 minutes into the sport. Adam and Staff BDS went on to stomp the primary sport of the sequence, with Adam’s ultimate scoreline within the sport reaching a peak of 8/0/4. Staff Whales smartened up in video games two and three, banning Darius in each of these contests and successful the sequence—seemingly on account of these bans.
Darius is, with out query, Adam’s signature champion. Throughout his total profession, Darius is Adam’s third-most-played champion in his pool with 23 video games performed and has a document of 17-6 throughout these video games (together with video games performed in ERLs), in line with LoL stats web site Games of Legends. The champion itself is a comparatively uncommon decide within the professional scene and no different main area gamers have as a lot expertise in skilled video games with Darius as Adam does.
Courting again to 2021, Darius has appeared in simply 38 main area professional video games, adequate for a decide price that hovers simply round one %. Almost half of these video games belong to Adam. However after seeing how sturdy the champion could be when he’s performed appropriately, it’s acquired us questioning once we’ll see extra prime laners world wide decide Darius up in professional video games.
Staff BDS will return to the Worlds stage on Friday, Oct. 13 for a must-win losers bracket sequence towards DetonatioN FocusMe.
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