Hey guys,
I just wanted to compare my runes with other Diana mains, or others who have a page that do significantly well with her. I use my main AP Burst page for all AP champs, and it goes like this: 3X Greater Quint of Ability Power, 9X Greater Mark of Magic Penetration, 7x Greater Seal of Magic Resist, 2X Greater Seal of Armor, and 9x Greater Glyph of Ability Power. They all are Tier 3. What are your opinions, and what would you change? Please give me any insight. Thanks.
Drunk Rummate1 votesI like to use 9 attack speed marks on diana for her passive. Really helps her waveclear and dueling. You generally get enough flat pen with sorc shoes + abyssal anyways.
SnugglePuggle941 votesI'm afraid to have all 9 marks of attack speed, because I like the extra damage from mpen, but I will get a few just to help her attack speed early game.
Drunk Rummate1 votesI'm afraid to have all 9 marks of attack speed, because I like the extra damage from mpen, but I will get a few just to help her attack speed early game.
You should go all or nothing with the attack speed. You either rely on the passive for damage or you take mpen and largely ignore it and rely on the burst from your QW and double R for assassination rather than dueling.
MLDzXnRRR1 votesI think that you need armor vs AD matchups like Zed. Also CDR per lvl is sometimes better than MR (but not against heavy burst dmg like Viktor, Annie, LB)
Dreadlocks1 votesDepends, are you lanning or jungling? Also only 2 armor seals?
SnugglePuggle941 votesI mostly lane with her, as I haven't done much jungle, I usually prefer doing tank champs if I have to do jungle. I only have 2 armor seals as since I go against mostly AP Champs on mid, I didn't want to sacrifice my magic resist for more armor, even if their team was more ad than ap, I would have a harder time laning against my enemy if I didn't have any resist in my runes.
Dreadlocks1 votesMagic pen reds, scaling armor yellows, flat mr blues, AP quints. You should be good to go with this set up then.
Serevas1 votesI have 5 pages that I utilize for Diana depending on the situation, now keep in mind I don't main diana, so really they're just general AP pages, but each has it's use.
Against AD with a strong laning phase and squishier targets
Quints: AP Marks: Magic Pen Seals: Armor Glyphs: Scaling AP
Versus aggressive AP laners
Quints: AP Marks: Magic Pen Seals: Scaling HP Glyphs: Flat MR
Versus weak AP laners
Quints: AP Marks: Magic Pen Seals: Scaling HP Glyphs: Scaling AP
Versus AD laners, but need CDR (Tankier teams for example)
Quints: AP Marks: Magic Pen Seals: Armor Glyphs: Scaling CDR
Versus weak AP laner and need CDR
Quints: AP Marks: Magic Pen Seals: Scaling HP Glyphs: Scaling CDR
SnugglePuggle941 votesCan you give me an example as to which rune page you select going against certain champs? Like one for each rune page?
Serevas1 votesSure I'm going to call them 1-5 in order of the list.
I would use against Yasuo or Zed assuming the team doesn't have several higher health targets. Say they have a tanky jungle, but they have Zed, their ADC, and idk a Nami for support. Tank junglers are the norm, but say a bruiser or even like a top vayne or something. Basically just non tank top laners. It gives you more damage to blow up those squishy targets you should be going for in team fights, and lets your trades increase in strength in lane as you level. Basically more power while sitting in lane in case you don't get many opportunities to back. So all around a pretty strong page, you can use it against and AD based laner.
Is a page that I'll use against aggressive AP based laners meaning champions that you'll likely take a lot of harass from or are at risk of having them go all in and kill you, so LeBlanc, Cho'gath, Fizz, Xerath are all champions that either harass a lot or go for all ins frequently.
Is a page that I take from laners that are weak early on, they're typically basic mages with longer spell cooldowns and easy to dodge skillshots. Viktor is very weak early and you can dodge his main skill shot pretty easily, Vel'koz has a bunch of easy to dodge skillshots. Kassadin could even fall into this category as his early laning is fairly weak. It's a page that you take if you know that you can easily abuse a match up, say you heavily counter a champion at all stages of the game, take this page because it tips those scales even further in your favor.
This page I'd take against Yasuo or Zed, even the ADCs that lane in mid now and again. I take this however when I need more spell spammability, my typical Diana build has very little CDR by the end, scaling up to 15% at higher levels allows me to spam spells in late game to beat on those tanky people more during a teamfight. If I take this page the enemy team usually has 2 or 3 tanks to deal with. If that's the case I'm typically also building Lucidity boots because the flat penetration isn't very valuable, and it pushes me up further in CDR for those fights.
This is basically a combination of page 3 and 4. I take it against those weak AP laners I mentioned in 3, but I need the CDR for fights because the enemy team has several tanks on the team like I talked about in 4.
SnugglePuggle941 votesThanks so much!
Hard4Hamsters1 votesI run a few different ones that can work for Diana.
I always take hybrid pen, but that's personal preference. One I like to run is 2 MS quints one Flat AP and then scaling AP glyphs. For seals I have it set up to be flat armor but you can use scaling health if that's your preference. I run this one if I feel like I need to be dodging skills or punishing AD matchups.
I run AP quints, hybrid pen marks, armor seals, and flat MR if I'm going to be trading with a magic damage opponent.
I run AP quints, hybrid pen marks, health per level seals, and a mix of MR and MR/lvl if I feel like I have a disadvantage early against an AP opponent and I'm going to play passive.
For Jungle Diana Flat AP, Attack Speed, and armor.