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S5 Diana Mid Help Please?

TheSkullSplitter·11/12/2015, 9:57:51 AM·2 votes·1,534 views

Hello My Fellow Summoners,

I have been playing assassins in league for a long time now,my most notable assasin being Katarina. I have played her for 6 months now. I have picked up Yasuo,Ekko and Zed on the way. Now,I love EKko,Yasuo and Zed ,but I have grown quite bored of them. A friend of mine then gifted me Diana and Dark Valkryie Diana for my BirthDay Present. He told me "That i'll have no trouble mastering Diana as she is an assassin" So... I haven't played Diana YET but intend to do so tomorrow. NOw.. I need some tips on playing Diana. So far i've only played "Glass Cannon" Assassin (Katarina,Zed,Akali ETC) so I've never had experience with a slightly bruiserish assassinish fighter. I most desperately need information on how to build her. So far I'm thinking of

item 3157 Zhonya's Hourglass item 3135 Void Staff item 3026 Guardian Angel item 3115 Nashor's Tooth item 1314 Sorcerer's boots (Home Guard) item 3174 Athene's Unholy Grail

Now, For Summoners I think I will take summoner 4 summoner 14 or summoner 12 summoner 4

So.... I like my current build as it gives me a lot of magic penetration,mana regen,attack speed and most importantly 40% cooldown reduction. The Guardian angel and Zhonya's hourglass gives me a lot more survivability,plus having a revive and stasis is good when I jump in a fray and slay carries and then I will most likely need survivability. The Nashor's tooth will give me more ap,plus the beautiful 50% attack speed bonus,and when synergised with Diana's passive,It gives me 80% increase attack speed.

I will take flash and ignite normally,but I will take teleport at times to use it with conjunction to homeguards.

I think that I have the right build for Diana,but I am not really sure. So if there are any Diana mains out there,can you give me a good build that includes

As for the gameplay in general,I will start off with

2 health potions 1 Doran's Ring (I plan on leaving the rest of the money for wards)

and.... I would like to start off with the Nashor's tooth first,but depending on the matchup I will buy according to it. I plan on playing Diana mainly in mid lane.

my plan on itemization based on matchups

Against champs with good pokes (Viktor,Twisted Fate,Malzahar) I will start off with a Zhonya's hourglass then build damage later on

Against High-Mobility Champions (Yasuo,Kassadin,Katarina) I will buy Athene's Unholy Grail to compensate for the mana I will use up chasing or poking them. I will then buy my defensive items.

Against high early game damage champions (Ekko,Azir,Brand) I will start off with the Guardian Angel,then the ability power then lastly the attack speed items

Against squishy burst champions (Zed,Akali,Annie) I will buy Zhonya's Hourglass first,then the Nashor's tooth so I can avoid the burst with the Zhonya's then follow up with Diana's power

So yeahhh..... I'm looking forward to my first game as Diana!

attack speed cooldown reduction armor magic resist ability power magic penetration

thank you for taking your time in to reading this i think to be honest super long post. :D

Hoping to get some good answers!

Also,could you include some Diana tricks with her skills and tips on her and such? I'm a very aggressive mid laner btw XD So.. I need tips on playing her aggressively. Also tips on juking with diana would be nice.

There is also a poll on whether Diana is a viable mid laner in season 5,season 6 watever the season is atm.

Thank you once again,

-TheSkullSplitter

18 Comments

MLDzXnRRR11/12/2015, 10:56:49 AM1 votes

She has bad laning like Akali. People run her with teleport, so you don't get zoned. Check pants are dragons tricks with Diana on youtube for advanced mechanics.

Lord Azır11/12/2015, 11:50:02 PM1 votes

So the thing I don't like about your build is while it's defensive, it's defensive in the wrong ways.. item 3174 and item 3026 shouldn't even be built on Diana. I'll show you what I usually build on her and explain why. item 3158 item 3001 item 3100 item 3157 item 3089 item 3135. You might be thinking, where's the 40% CDR? Well let's not forget item 3100 now gives 10% CDR, boots give 10% and I run 15% CDR scaling blues. So end game if using the CDR masteries (which you should be this season) you would have the full 40%. item 3001 is basically now the most cost efficent AP item in the game, while nearly every single AP item in the game went up 200-500 gold. This actually went DOWN. You get 70AP, 50MR and reduce every enemy's MR by 20. It's way too gold efficient not to buy. item 3100 with the CDR buff is now I would dare to say core on Diana, the extra 250+ mana it gives is all Diana needs and it gives her movespeed and more burst aswell. You gotta use it properly though. Before jumping in to attack, always charge up your passive so the moment you q+r your first auto will not only get the empowered 3rd auto but also a Lich Bane proc on top of it.

A couple tips I can give you since you don't play the champion.

  1. You don't need to wait for your Q to hit before you R to the enemy. If the Q ends up hitting the target your R will go off cooldown, whether or reached the target with R before the Q hit.
  2. Using the E properly. There's 3 ways to use this ability, first off is using it as a sort of escape. If you have someone chasing you down. The second they get close enough just press it and it will slow them down. The second is using it offensively in a 1v1. Most Diana players will kinda just use it the second they get in range. You wanna wait until they decide to try to run away to use it. The third is using it in team fights. You need item 3157 for this most of the time. You wanna wait till they are all grouped, then get your shield up, Q+R into the middle of them. Then press E to drag them all into a ball (kinda of like Orianna ult does) this will slow all the enemies but you have to make sure you hit item 3157 right after you press E. This will give your team time to follow up with their spells while the enemy is slowed and give your cooldowns time to come back up. Then from there you just try to jump onto the enemy ADC and 1 shot them.

Make sure you don't use your W to farm, you never know when you might need that shield and it uses a ton of mana. Try to never Q+R+R, unless you know you can get out. Instead use Q+R and then wait for Q to come back up then repeat.

Lord Azır11/12/2015, 11:56:42 PM1 votes

Also build path against AD champs should be something like item 3191 item 3057 item 3158 item 3157 item 3100 item 3001 Against AP item 3001 item 3158 item 3100 item 3157

AlldaySkandi11/14/2015, 10:02:10 PM1 votes

Diana items are quite simple and never change,check on pro builds and youll pretty much see the same build over and over always rush nashors tooth - core on diana ,dianas passive does 80% ap ,nashors lets you use it more often ,so it gives you great wave clear, and you can shred turrets because the passive works on towers ,you become a very strong split pusher and can basically out duel anyone ,scales well late game because of her passive

after that just go straight ap ludens if your ahead never build a mana item

Catastrop11/15/2015, 12:44:13 PM1 votes

You don't want Grail or GA on Diana, because that's just wasted slots on a champion like her. item 3001 instead of Grail and item 3089 instead of GA. Nashor's isn't a core on her so you can consider swapping it out for either item 3285/item 3100. Not saying the item is bad, but you can definitely consider getting something other than Nashor's if you're in the lead. Only get it unless your team needs the split pushing power.

As for tricks. Her Q and R travel at the same speed. When you Q and you're sure it will hit, immediately follow up with RRW. This kills of any squishy target before they can even react, seriously it's hilarious.