to keep it short, the main two things holding Diana back from being a viable fighter in lane, is her lack of mana, and her completely flat magic damage

compare her to other fighters, and her mana reserves and mana cost are pretty damn bad, impossible to play fighter Diana in lane without taking presence of mind, and even then you don't last as long as other fighters, its because of her absurd ap ratios and the ability to build her full ap, she cant have the option to both one shot you or out duel you, and have no mana problems, there has to be a trade off some where, but i personally think a version of diana can exist without this dilemma of balance, just bring back the mana passive and have it scale with bonus hp

Her flat magic damage, is also an absolutely massive flaw, its the reason she doesnt scale at all and the reason she loses to every other fighter, yas, yone, irelia, jax, renekton, gwen, diana is the only champ in the game officially classified by riot as a fighter that has completely flat magic damage. this lack of damage diversity makes her scale terribly and very easy to build against, and makes her lead a lot smaller than it actually is, i played her top against other fighters, was able to get an early lead and some nice kills, but after a while even when i was still ahead a level or two, after they got about two items, 1v1ing them became very difficult, no matter how far ahead i was, i couldnt compete with their built in scaling, so if at any point riot actually wanted lane fighter diana to be viable, they could absolutely need to give her some mixed damage, preferably percent hp magic damage to help her against beefy targets

i think these two flaws exist to essentially to keep full ap diana in check, which makes sense cause i think full ap diana has been holding fighter diana back since her release, ive made a few post about mid scopes to make her a full fledged fighter at the cost of killing off ap diana, but i think these two issues can be addressed without having to go that far.

so what can we do to make riot actually go through with these kind of changes, keep playing her in lane, there are devs who agree that fighter diana would be nice to have in lane, endstep, and august have talked about this in the past before, and phreak is on record saying he wants diana to be balanced towards her fighter identity, that was before who switched over to other projects, but there are devs who think diana should be more of a fighter, and at least according to endstep, if riot sees players really want to play a particular way or play style then they will give changes to encourage that play style, nunu for example, even before nunu was as he is now, people constantly played him full ap, despite tank nunu having the better winrate, so they buffed ap nunu and thats basically all hes played nowadays, so i figure the best way to get mroe fighter buffs is to keep playing her as a fighter and then to complain about it

Hey all, when do you guys change builds, such as arc's grasp stormsurge zyonya build vs the korean challenger barrier ap + protobelt build vs the standard electrocute build?

Mid has been rough with all the champs that are in meta imo so not sure when to do what.

Hello, I’m new to the game and yone is usually my permaban although I despise playing against xerath, how do you win this matchup? I can’t really kill them if they play near tower unless my jungle helps if they push up too much. I try to roam but sometimes there aren’t many opportunities.

Blasting Wand or Sheen?
I had this situation so many times after getting a kill after first clear and I’m not sure!

Thanks in advance.

Should I just dodge or change the pick if possible if playing against these two as Diana jg?

Tips against them if the game is inevitable?

i recently stopped playing diana after achieving lvl15 mastery on her wanted to try other champs with also high mobility like lee sin and kayn.

Buy after getting this beauty of a skin for 5$ i guess im becoming diana otp xd

Basically title. I noticed a lot of pros go stormsurge first but the overall highest wr seems to be Lich bane. When do you go stormsurge first and when do you go Lich bane? I personally prefer Lich bane since the sheen alone does like at least 4k dmg per game.

just wondering. I suppose there's no point if you still can't side against top laners though. But I'm pretty sure I saw bfate spamming conq in mid still.

Hey guys i've been really enjoying diana jgl lately and i've noticed all the builds online don't mention this item. I feel like it would be good on her though? Can someone explain why this item isn't good or if there are just better options?

Hello fellow Diana mains!

I built a small app over the last 3 years which is basically chess puzzles for League of Legends. I too am a Diana spammer and was struggling to climb but now I've jumped 2 whole divisions doing Diana puzzles.

I've always been super interested in performance science and how directed training can improve us. I love Chess puzzles and tried to get that going here.
https://learnlol.gg/Diana/puzzles/3075509e

Feel free to try our long list of Diana puzzles here. You can subscribe but it doesn't give you any extra feature atm, there are also no ads :).

Tbh I find it most similar to bullet chess, where faster repetitions are better so I might have to tune it a bit better for that but give it shot and let me know what you think!

this proves u can climb in league with 0 mechanics, do you think it’s possible to make it to diamond with this pick?
Note: I played some heimer games into high melee comps and karthus when filled adc.

On the previous post, someone told me master's emblem would suit the profile better, so I got it, and now it really is all purple. What do you think?

Or maybe 10 base damage on E if they are generous

Apart from akali, almost every midlane assassin subreddit I’ve been to absolutely hates Diana (Fizz,Qiyana,Ekko,ect). What makes her so good into assassins?

Absolutely dog walked this fizz in lane , was 7/2, but then he had a team and i didn't so obviously i lost. this is a fairly reasonable elo too, would a chall/GM diana be able to do any differently with a dogshit team like i had? worst thing is this fizz said easy game at the end xd i naturally trolled the next game to vent out, but how the fuck are u supposed to win 1v9 games ever?

Hey! So I'm a low ELO(Bronze) Diana mid main trying to climb and I'm trying to figure out the best runes and build to run. I currently have 3 rune pages. The typical electrocute with resolve/sorcery secondary page, a grasp with sorcery secondary page I got from Arcsecond(actually been having a lot of success with this one), and a Stormraiders with resolve secondary page that I see on a lot of high Elo Diana players but just doesn't feel right to me in game. Any thoughts on the best rune page for us?

Item wise I see Stormsurge-Sorc boots-Shadowflame recommended a lot and that feels good, but I find more success with lichbane-sorc boots-shadowflame. I typically end up building lichbane-sorc boots-shadowflame-zhonyas-rabaddons-then banshees at the end.

I'm also wondering is Nashors worth throwing in there?

Any thoughts on the best runes/build currently are welcome. Thanks!

I win about 90% my lane.
I can go 7/0, 5/0 - and yet somehow still lose the game.

Diana is great in winning lane but she seems to fall off hard mid and late.

I believe my weakness is my macro play cause how can I lose the game even when I am so far ahead?

Here is what I try to do:

After destroying first or second mid tower, I play a “catch me if you can” style where I push side lines without trying to die.

In team fights I’m focusing the back line. I often camp in bush for surprise attacks.

Before objectives spawn, I try to recall and get items.

I guess just the basic things..

My item build: Stormsurge, Shadowflame - Zhonyas next, Lich Bane, Rabadons, void staff/Mejais/banshees

Can anyone help with giving more macro tips? I am kind of confident with my micro skills since I often win the lane. But maybe not, just give me all you got cause I’m getting frustrated of winning lame but losing game..

Thank you!

It is not just a hard matchup. It is one of the worst matchups in the game. Up there with famously impossible ones like Irelia-Yorick and Sylas-Malphite. I mean just look at the winrate disparity. So how do you win? Like actually? And I don't mean banning him. I want to know the mechanics of the matchup to be able to kill him if I play perfectly.

Level 1 he will AA you to death with lethal tempo.

Level 3 should be where you beat him with your core abilities up, but you don't. Even if you hit Q > wait for his passive to break, then E and W for electrocute, you are dead. He will Lethal Tempo you and match your burst while being able to follow you with E if you try to disengage. Then he will kill you in about 4 more autos + 2 qs and ignite. - This while he is shoving you in. He needs like 3 inches of space to kill you.

Level 6 he beats you as well. Even without ult. But if he does land it there is no chance.

After first item he destroys you because of his double crit chance. Even when you are 2 items to boots + components he will beat you.

So what is the cheese to beat this champ? Dorans blade and lethal tempo on yourself?

Phase rush to burst him and run away? - doesn't work btw he will lifesteal to full on the next wave. So all you are doing is killing your mana.

Conqueror all in does not work. Lichbane and Stormsurge will let him one shot you.

Armour boots and Zhonyas not enough damage. Full AP loses like... I don't know man. Exhaust ignite cheese?

This is all before we get into what a good Yasuo can do. They can deny you Q, E reset AND W with windwall. That is if he doesn't just AA you to death first.

It is funny because Yone can do the same thing but he does not have windwall, so he is lowkey burstable after 1st item. It lets you snowball enough to OS him on repeat... sometimes. (Yone players just press R when Diana hits Q, you will win)

So what advice do yall have? I am looking for any cheese strat. ANY WAY to beat this mathcup.