Warwick vs Darius — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Warwick against Darius · 53.25% win rate over 1,106 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Warwick is favoured — Warwick owns 3 of the 7 game windows to Darius's 2. Warwick wins 53.25% of games vs Darius in top lane (1,106 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1WarwickLevel 1 is yours — Darius can't out-trade your Q sustain and Blood Hunt before his kit comes online.
Level 2Even / skillLevel 2 is skill, decided by whether you eat the outer blade of Decimate or dodge it.
Level 3WarwickLevel 3 favours you: dodging Q and dashing in lets you win the trade before bleed stacks.
Levels 4-5Even / skillLevels 4-5 are even as his Q edge-heal and your sustain roughly cancel out.
Level 6WarwickLevel 6 is yours — Infinite Duress cancels his pull and Guillotine to win the all-in.
First itemDariusAt first item Darius flips it: his bleed and Guillotine reset out-scale your heal.
Two+ itemsDariusWith 2+ items Darius wins outright — full-stack bleed and reset execute beat your dive.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1-2 you control the wave — Darius wants short-trade Q edges but your Q sustain and Blood Hunt let you disengage the bleed. Never stand in the outer blade of Decimate or you feed his heal and stacks.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Warwick vs Darius report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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