How to lane against Darius as Rumble?

Darius

I've decided to give a shot at rumble to extend my top lane pool, and have a blast with him. So far, I've played against a few champs, but those I have the biggest problem with are Darius and Vladimir. I've got the MMR of silver 2, and these are the only 2 champs so far that I've lost lane.

I've watched a lot of games of pros, but I didn't specifically search for a Darius matchup. How do you build up / deal with him? I've tried farming under tower, but it's not easy-peasy for me so far.

Posted Jul 9, 2015, 1:57 PM UTC

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pypride•

Rumble loses lvls 1-3. At level 4, you start to do more dmg with Q. If you play safe and don't die, even if you're behind some cs, you should win the game. Because you will outscale. Just ward your lane and call out mias.

Cloth armor + 5 pots is a good start. Get an early seekers, then get your guise and pen boots. If he gets boots early, you are going to want to get boots too. Having a movement speed discrepancy against Darius sucks. It's the only way he can get to you if you play it correctly. Your job is to frustrate him in this lane by not dying, warding, calling out roams, and farming the best you can. He will likely push the wave. If he does, you can call for jungler help & kill him easily, especially if you land your E's.

Bait Darius Q by going barely into Q range then backing out with scrap shield. That way, if you get hit, you will only take minimal damage early. Don't do that later on in the lane, though - it hurts. Don't overheat on W or E. If you miss E or farm with E, don't go near him. He will pull you. Try not to push the wave with Q. Harass with Q & E when his pull is down. (It's on a 20 second cd early game.) Use tp effectively better than he does, and you should win the game. Even though you might lose lane.

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Emeraldaes•

Hmm you can bully him pre lvl 6. Just make sure you use the edge of q so he can't hit you and just kite back and forth to the edge of it to harass him. Rumbe wins this lane pre 6, use scrap shield if he ever gets in range to q you, and just kite and poke him.

After 6 you can't duel him anymore. Look to make tp plays bot and just dont try to fight him. Rumble isn't a good 1v1 champ, but his teamfighting is insanely strong. Just try to group with your team, pick up the farm you can, c-ask your jungler for help if it's really needed.

They key to winning with rumble is teamfighting and snowballing your team in the midgame. The key to winning with darius is hoping you get fed enough so that it doesn't matter that you're useless in teamfights (when not ahead). Especially against a rumbe that can let his team kite him for days with e and ult.

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Prof_Malicious•

The edge of his Q is still in range for Darius.

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Emeraldaes•

Well then they key is going back and forth and make him miss it and/or scrap shield it

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uclaej•

As a Darius player, I've never played against a Rumble before, but do you want to engage Rumble when he is overheated, or not? When he is, you know he'll be silenced, which is a good thing, but he gets bonus AA damage, which is bad...?

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KebiloOP•

If there is no flamespitter active, go all in when hé is overheat. Be careful of when his abilities are up again tho.

The most powerful moment for rumble is into the danger zone.

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