pretty much any carry can do well against him but ashe, cait, draven and ezreal have been known to do particularily well though none of them are particularly safe during aggressive ganks.

teemo, kayle, i think yorick, and elise are some oddballs that do well against him and happen to do a bit better against ganks.

AD tanks don't do so well though AD bruiser shen or leona can probably lane well against him.

If you want to counter him throughout the entire game, possibly on a larger scope than necessary, volibear can do this. Anybody with peels such as chogath or singed or vi could do this.

If you want to beat him down with brute force there's vi, jayce, vayne with IE, somewhat farmed nasus, and earlygame fiora

If you want to outduel him with ease there's irelia, shaco, kayle, sion, counterbruiserbruiserlux, nocturne or really anybody with a denial to his ult, earlygame vayne, olaf, jax, and zed.

If you want to outfarm, harrass, zone, control lane, and gank harder than him everytime you gain even the slightest upperhand even if you arent necessarily going to directly counter him there's jax, vi, olaf, riven, irelia, katarina, talon, lee sin, and some others.

If you arent laning against him but you want to counter him later on or want to switch lanes to help somebody out so you can annoy the **** out of him early and **** on him late there's talon, pantheon, kayle again, teemo again, jayce, and others with blinds peels, stuns or whatever.

I'm sure there's more ways to look at it but he is not limited to the 5-10 counters most people list.

If you don't like to think and just want to limit yourself to easy inlane victories that may or may not be able to counteract the rest of his team disallowing any form of comeback from him or anyone else there's
kayle, teemo, garen, nidalee, and cait who don't have reliable CC
Theirs vlad, tryn, rumble and some others who may or may not be needed in your teamcomp which can weaken it if chosen just to counter darius and not their whole teamcomp.

Not to say these are bad picks, just dont screw yourself trying to counter darius. In the long run he is rarely the biggest issue you will face even though he will appear to be the one that's killing you and your team off.

Bump

Play olaf or jax if you want a tank. Any champ with poke beats him

Calm down dude don't get so worked up or your anger will lead you to the darksside
Btw your post isn't very helpful either

how do you dare to question the Dunk King? He is the hand of Noxus, the strongest of them all. Be respectful. CertainlyT and the whole Riot team want him to be the strongest. You speak like desiring balance, there is no balance.

Darius can destroy an olaf top, I dont even know what to say to that. Seems like you dont play top much...

Jax needs lvl 3 to compete with darius' damage, giving Darius a few minutes to gain a gold advantage that he can snowball from. Jax also needs AP. He is not a tank in the sense that an Olaf or a Darius is, so I am not really interested in comparing them.

If I wanted to counter darius it would be easy to just use a ranged champ, there are many to choose from. I am trying to point out that there are no AD tanks that can compete with Darius on even terms. That is the heart of what is wrong with Darius. We should have a few choices of tanks that stand a chance at him. Darius is currently at the top of that list.

To point something out, I never claimed Darius as overpowered. Against lower skilled opponents he becomes incredibly strong but against higher skilled opponents Darius becomes almost worthless. Hardly overpowered, but simply not optimally designed for every level of play.

Also, I would hardly consider my suggestions nerfs. Darius usually uses his ult once or twice in a team fight, adding a cooldown simply prevents him from rofl-stomping newer players and murdering the whole team. Adding a limit to the number of things he can pull with apprehend is also not a nerf, it simply prevents lesser skilled darius players from dominating the lane and creates more counterplay. Mind you the limit would be like 3/4/5/6/7 enemies, so you will usually grab someone even if they aren't exceedingly stupid.

The refresh is a reward for using the ability to kill steal in most situations, thus rewarding poor teamwork instead of punishing it. Also the punishment for not killing with it is what would happen if you used every other ability in the game (for the Most part). Noxian Guillotine actively encourages the player to use it to kill steal from allies, because to not use it that way would be a less effective use of the ability.

Perhaps my suggestions aren't the best options for remedying the poor design of the ability but it was simply to get a conversation going .

Problem is that you already outlined the issue. He is strong against unskilled players but not against skilled ones.

Further having read your original post I'm seeing nothing but suggestions making him weaker

This being posed as a supposed solution to the way he looks to skilled an unskilled players.

I highly doubt that the his problem is a lack of skill investment in regards to skilled players.

It's more like he's just not providing a lot to the team.

Well poor teamwork can lose games. You take the kill from the carry and thus deprive your team of it's prime damage dealer.

However that can be done with any damage skill. It falls to the player to make the call. From what I see it's not rewarding you for bad teamwork. It's rewarding you for patience.

Except that it's on a champ that has a refresh and limited mana.

False It does encourage you to wait till you can get the kill. It falls on the player to be judicious in it's use.

Even with skilled players he's annoying to play against, think of those pro blitzcranks always landing the grab

Darius is the same way he zones you out of the lane in fear of instant death, his burst dmg is way too high