Diana proposed changes to Shield

SinDur··1 votes·439 views

I've been playing DianaDiana a lot recently, and even after the nerfs that happened ages ago, I still enjoy her style. But I feel like some of her abilities could use quality of life improvements to help make her more viable as a pick all around, since it seems like to me she is sort of niche in her selection. One that stands out to me is her shield. It's not exactly a strong shield on it's own, even when all 3 orbs detonate, and often times the orbs will rotate away from an opponent just before it hit's something, then fizzle being unable to increase it all. This is a very frustrating thing to play with, and it's easy to exploit against her.

I think an simple fix to this would be to allow the orbs to explode after their duration no matter where they are. Even if it meant reducing the duration of the orbs, it's kind of lame to put a skill on cooldown that is defensive in nature, but only get the full effect when playing aggressively with it.

Not really a huge matter in comparison to other champs and such, just something I noticed. :)

4 Comments

THExJACKAL1 votes

I think you are on to something, as I play Diana a lot as well. However, the point of the shield, is to protect you in a fight. So basically, to fully utilize this, you can W, Q, then R to your target, and all orb will most likely detonate on impact, if not, you still have your E and another R to cause damage. I will say though, that the amount of protection the shield offers, could be increased a bit, nothing drastic, but maybe instead of 30% AP it could go to 40%, even 35% would help enough. Or if not that, then increase the base amount by about 50 at level 5 for a base of 150. I feel that would be sufficient enough.

I Main Swain1 votes

I agree. just a slight buff on the shield would be plenty. the requiring to detonate is meant to make it hard to play passively, which is dianas biggest shortcoming. her shield is basically riots idea of saying the best defense is an offense.

Roaranor1 votes

I think giving her shield a bit more umph would be a good idea, but not too much. Her shield was the very last thing they nerfed and it was due to her being able to abuse it and get easy trade while taking relatively little damage pre-6 in lane which was supposed to be hard for her given her instant kill potential at 6 and beyond.

Maybe give the shield better scaling to compensate for the weak early game that she's meant to have?

firescorpio1 votes

well, compared to a new champion that has been released, i dont think her shield would be too OP right now :p

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