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[Idea] Diana rebalance

skippersd·6/20/2014, 5:22:06 PM·1 votes·460 views

Hy all!

After looking at a red thread (http://www.reignofgaming.net/redtracker/topic/114583-daily-reminder-diana-needs-to-be-looked-at-still) i felt that i need to share my two cents on Diana.

First and foremost, Diana is a bruiser-assassin. I think that is core to her identity. That said, her current state is indeed problematic, and here is my take on it.

You should be able to play Diana as an assassin OR as a bruiser. For her assassin playstyle Q+R are the core spells, W is good to have, and her passive is a menace to manage (great in lane, but not that good in teamfights, especially in the jungle). On the other hand, for a bruiser playstyle her W and passive are the most important, with Q+R only secondary, as a mean for gapclosing.

  • Knowing this, i propose a possible solution: Taking away most of the AP ratio on her passive (make it 0,3 for example) and increase the base damage (Maybe even make her passive's damage scale with bonus AS).

  • Increase Q's AP ratio moderaetly, and R's slightly, with reducing the base damages.

  • Increase the shield's CD, with each autoattack lowering it.

This way a full AP assassin Diana would still have ONE shield, and some damage in her AA's, but most of her strength would come from Q+R, while a tanky/dps Diana would have lots of shields and hard-hitting autoattacks but low burst.

1 Comments

Cosmic Warper6/21/2014, 2:41:55 AM1 votes

The problem is that there is no other bruiser assassin. It essentially doesn't exist. It's only a facade that extends to Diana's assassin playstyle in which she's tanky. She should be a bruiser with a gap closer that dives into the fray and demolishes champions and being able to take hits at the same time. This is currently not the case.

With that said, increasing Diana's ratios on her Q and ultimate would make her even more snowbally and magnify her problem as being an all-in champ who either one-shots an enemy, or gets one-shotted in the process. I do however like the proposition for the change on her shield as it would promote staying in prolonged fights to get another shield quickly. However, the cd would have to be lowered only by attacks against Champions or large monsters, because having a shield up every few seconds in lane is unhealthy for counterplay even if it is gated by mana.