Diana's laning phase needs major buffs after these changes

Yenn··2 votes·1,127 views

You get dumpstered by ranged champions until level 6, while being unable to control the wave because your entire kit is AoE, and then.. You just continue to get dumpstered. Where as before, your level 6 power spike was enough of a threat that it forced your opponent to play defensively.

Now, post-6 is exactly the same as pre-6. Your opponent just zones you off the wave 24/7, you inadvertently push the wave with your Q if you try to CS from range, and then the wave reaches your turret and your passive makes you lose CS. You don't have the damage to kill your opponent in a single trade, and need to land 3-4 Q's before you can actually go all-in, at which point you'll likely be too low to do so.

This either needs to be reverted, or she needs to be given survivability/sustain to put her on par with champions like Mordekaiser and Sylas.

10 Comments

Aphëlios3 votes

? her laning phase is way stronger now what are you talking about...

WoonStruck1 votes

A melee champ getting dumpstered mid by a ranged champ early...hmm...since when is this new?

Also, Mordekaiser is massively overpowered atm. Nobody should be put 'on par' with him.

Sylas was gutted so he could keep his sustain. Do you want Diana to get more sustain and be nerfed further overall?

#Welcome to being melee and not being completely broken.

If anything they need to readjust her passive so she can actually farm under tower.

Blue Shift1 votes

Give up CS to stay healthy.

Your damage early on is literal dog shit, you do nearly nothing so there is no point in fighting.

What I do is play really passively, using w to farm as much as I can for the shield, sometimes using Q to poke for potential ganks or to avoid them tower diving you. On the first recall get sheen and you will do a lot of damage with more mana for extended fights and poke.

WoonStruck2 votes

Uhh, no you rush RoA now.

Sheen doesn't help that much for the 1050g it costs. Catalyst will actually let you survive lane.

Blue Shift1 votes

Rushing ROA gives you no early damage, where Diana can shine and snowball.

It's personal preference on what you want to build.

WoonStruck1 votes

Wow its almost like you aren't meant to try to all-in everybody the moment they're in range...

Hmm....

Diana doesn't win lane. That hasn't changed.

Blue Shift1 votes

You keep thinking that then. Being loud about something doesn't make it true.

WoonStruck1 votes

Oh, so you're saying the best way to play IS to mindlessly all-in every time you're in range?

I never knew feeding was the best course of action. Thanks! That should up my gameplay!

Honestly, you don't even have an arguement. You're just saying I'm wrong because you don't agree.

Blue Shift1 votes

Jesus christ dude why are you so butt hurt about this?

I was trying to give the guy some advice from someone who's played a lot of Diana with good success.

Minus the games I dc'd from because I had horrible internet, I had over 60% winrate just last season in the mid lane.

I am not even going to educate you because you seem so extremely close minded that I feel like it would be more useful to tell a brick.

WoonStruck1 votes

Every high mmr diana rushed spellbinder.

That is now changing to RoA so far.

Its been 3 days and her power curve drastically changed.

I doubt you know best, as you seem to claim, because nobody does. Nobody has enough experience with different builds yet.

The only reason someone would build lichbane is to try to desperately cling to her braindead gameplay they were trying to get rid of.

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