Diana Lategame Question

Draqone·4/19/2016, 11:19:07 AM·1 votes·769 views

Hey guys.

I picked up diana recently, and I quite like playing her. I usually manage to get an early game advantage however I start to struggle a lot after 30 minutes.

I run ignite so I am not really comfortable splitpushing as I have no TP - in my low elo there's no guarantee a fight just won't randomly break out. I also prefer blue trinket since when I am mid I can actually ward up much of the map just being in lane.

My build is usually abyssal into rylai's (or nashor's if I am really ahead) into zhonya. Still, even with those semi defensive items I usually get totally blown up in teamfights.

I am wondering what do you build and what do you do to snowball diana games.

3 Comments

Moon Mom4/19/2016, 4:08:47 PM2 votes

Honestly, take TP instead of ignite. Teleport is a much better summoner spell for her mid lane (I'm a Diana one trick pony with 670k mastery points). It helps you if you need to back early so you can buy an extra dorans right, or early resistances (she does have a lot of bad early matchups). TP also allows you to splitpush more effectively / gank bot lane easier to help secure a lead.

Diana falls off late game. She is a midgame carry that slowly falls off the later the game goes on. Lategame you usually want resistances + damage. Something like this:

Abyssal > Zhonyas (ALWAYS get zhonyas asap, it is absolutely core on her for teamfights and vs AD) > Nashors (optional, you can sub it for lich bane depending on your play style. Nashors gives you something to do during spell downtime, lich bane adds an extra AP ratio to help you delete carries) > Deathcap / Void > Rylias / Ludens (Depends how fed you are or how much damage they are doing in a fight).

Lategame you want to focus on picks. If you see an opportunity to kill someone while splitting, take it. Dianas team fighting is very binary - Q > Flash > R > W > E > Passive > Zhonyas (team follows up on your dive engage) > Q > R > R.

I personally prefer yellow trinket, but that is preference. Blue wards are taken out so quickly at my elo.

Shadòw4/19/2016, 11:34:36 AM1 votes

just make sure to use your zhonyas when you dive your enemies. Activate your w mid-air.

Example could be q ult+w (e) zhonyas ult.

Leeerzeichen4/19/2016, 1:43:45 PM1 votes

Try to catch enemy if they are alone, you usually want to fight 1 vs 1. If you feel like you are useless in team fights, try to go split pushing. But if you are forced to teamfight, you should try to insta kill their carries with q w r r and go into you zhyonyas.