With the new Diana skin, do you think we can show our heretic some love?

Succubús GF··1 votes·355 views

I can already feel people downvoting , but honestly Diana is in such an awkward spot right now. Jungle wise, she isn't viable because certain champions outshine her by doing what she does, better (Looking at you, Vi) I have always felt it weird that her playstyle is that of a fighter / assassin, but yet she is almost sub fighter, when I think of the word fighter (and I already KNOW I'm going to get a bunch of comments about how she fighters have different classes that I don't have the link to) I think of someone who gets in your face and beats you, more specifically to beat you. I chose riven as an example of this because honestly she is the closest champion with the same resemblance to Diana. But yet Diana is in mid and Riven, top. Now I know that Diana is probably better suited in the mid lane but I think there should be implemented items that can make her feel like shes an actual fighter. Like for example item 3044 , 200 health 15 ad. If we created an item that was like the ap version of it , that would be kind of cool, give more of an option of what to buy, or give some tankiness to her so that she can maybe go top. Or just excel in mid a bit more

What are your thoughts?

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venomous frost1 votes

she's fine. play her like an assassin.

Niyumi1 votes

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certain champions outshine her by doing what she does, better

So, like literally every jungler not named Vi, Lee, Hec, Kha and Rengar.

Handy Sandy 1 votes

She can be played as a midlane assassin. Zed can't really do anything until he's 6, Akali can't either. But once Diana is 6 she has great ganking and all in potential.

Moon Mom1 votes

Diana's in an ok spot currently. Speaking as a one trick you do have to get a lead on your opponent to be effective, but that's common place with most assassins. Diana is good for the fact that she can all in and use hourglass, serving as a pseudo engage per say.

Succubús GF1 votes

The reason why she is only "okay" is because she has to be super duper ahead. Riot has specifically changed champions so that they don't fall off if behind.

Most assassins

Moon Mom1 votes

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The reason why she is only "okay" is because she has to be super duper ahead. Riot has specifically changed champions so that they don't fall off if behind.

I'm pretty sure that's still the case with all champions that are required to snowball. Diana's burst has 0 counterplay when she's behind. If you're even or ahead you burst people just fine IMO.

I have thousands of games with her played (at least 3 -4k total), and she's got nothing but buffs after the first set of huge nerfs that hit in 2012 shortly after her release. If they buff her again she'll become FOTM and just one-shot everything when far behind/ Zhonyas / repeat.

They're pushing her towards the fighter rework anyway. They'll probably do something like give her bonus attack speed for R'ing to a Q'd target, and swap her E and R around so she can gank earlier / be more of an engage champion.

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