Build Burst = Get focused down instantly because melee squishy Build Tanky = Not enough Burst to kill their carries in time
The only current fix to diana is either a buff to give her more sustain in laning phase (W shield scaling increased), or a buff to her passive so she can have more dps & build tankier.
hater free zone2 votesShe's a high risk/reward pick. She's built to go hard or don't go at all. Other champs have methods of escapes; Zed shadow dancing, Talon parkour, Fizz troll pole, Ekko rewind and dash/port, Kat shunpo, LeBlanc's Distortion/Mimic, yasuo Dash, Ahri's three dash ult and move speed passive, Shaco Deceive/Clone, etc etc.
Diana's ability to escape just isn't really there unless she's in some highly situational scenarios with her ult/passive.
Diana's ult is basically a shitter version of Akali's ult.
Hexs Fortune1 votesShe needs a rework to focus her champ.
MuffledGarbage1 votesYou know who is in a WORSE spot...
...
you build tanky and try to use your W and it works for the duration of your E... but then your E runs out
and you're stuck in W with a really sucky choice,
go OUT of W and lose a lot of health cause you lose the resistances OR
stay IN your W and lose a lot of health because of you being self-slowed.
can barely do his job, which is to counter champs that are AD and/or rely on basic attacks for damage.
The poor guy loses lane to 
and 
(with crit build)
"But... But mah 
"
thornmail has been crap for a while, Rammus only uses it thanks to it's high armor(which is now rendered less effective thanks to the higher armor of most other tank items) and the passive stacking with his W.
at least 
CAN do her job...
not very well but she CAN do it.
Shuyin1781 votesyou build tanky and try to use your W and it works for the duration of your E... but then your E runs out and you're stuck in W with a really sucky choice,
You do realize you can press W again to end it early right......
MuffledGarbage1 votesyou build tanky and try to use your W and it works for the duration of your E... but then your E runs out and you're stuck in W with a really sucky choice, go OUT of W and lose a lot of health cause you lose the resistances OR **stay IN your W and lose a lot of health because of you being self-slowed. **
Yes, I do know that you can press W to end it early.
you didn't read everything I wrote, apparently.
RogueWill1 votesPlay her top with a heavy armor rune page (Usually I run flat armor quint and yellows, magic pen reds, scaling mr blues) and a mastery tree with thunderlord keystone (12/18/0).
You go into lane and get 
and for the last 2 items grab one of the followign depending on what you need 
by checking your tab and see what you should itemize for.
That will allow you to duel pretty much any bruiser (that is AD) by trading correctly.(R,aa(shen), W, Q, AA (shen)) landing a Q before hand can let you do a full in but most people will be wary of the Q first (they wont expect the r in first). You still have enough damage to solo carries on decent time as long as you don't fall behind early. For AP enemies you could run an MR run set up but it doesn't work quite as well since Diana base resistances are better suited to counter AD. For teamfights, ideally you want to land a Q on a squishy and then use your combo followed by an immediate stoneplate but if your team is close you could R, W, AA (shen), into stoneplate (E if necessary) , the burst is almost immediately and will burst any squishy for at least 2/3 of their HP, you use the time on your stoneplate to wait for your Q to finish the kill and to dissipate all the focus you will get. Usually teh carries end up zoned, killed or forced to flash away.
Moon Mom1 votesIgnore everyone saying she's fine. They clearly don't play the champion.
The only alternative I've found to playing her is going: Hextech revolver rush, ludens echo. This makes you glass cannon as hell but it's the only way to snowball up. You can add protobelt, and then choose deathcap / voidstaff / nashors third item.
GLP / Nashors is also a good hextech rush for a more fighter build. Voidstaff third item for burst.
Stormraiders to dip in and out of fights after engaging, and TLD for additional burst if going glass build.
