u/filthyheratic

i will forever be salty about the removal of og triple e, mainly because they gave us the bullshit excuse of saying it was a bug, when new triple e is objectively a bug, og triple e followed all the rules of dianas kit, and required skill to execute. dianas q applies moonlight in real time as the arc travels along the ground and hits enemies, so how exactly can a moonlight mark be removed from something that doesnt have it yet????

but here we have this janky ass new version, where somehow the first target hit keeps their moonlight???

i absolutely believe riot just didnt want diana to have that kind of skill expression and mobility, they have said multiple time they dont like certain high damage stat check champs having too much skill expression, diana falls in between those lines, goes back to what i believe is another instance of ap "assassin" diana holding her full kit back from being as good as it could be

just estimating when the skin is to come out, so act 1 ends in 8 days, act 2 is gonna be shorter than usual, 10 weeks, so its gonna be here fairly quick, im guessing it will be released on pbe within the last month of the season, so after 6 weeks into act 2, skin hits pbe, then comes to live week nine

kinda click bait title post but let me cook, i love this champ, been playing her for 10 years now, first champ i ever saved up for and bought, got over almost 4 million mp with her, so i feel like i know the identity of the champ pretty well, that being said i think this champ has insane potential, and i dont think her current design has ever really done the best job on fulfilling that identity, i believe the "assassin" side of her kit has been holding her back for YEARS.

i think either give her a midscope that makes her a full fledged fighter, or a full vgu that makes a proper assassin, i personally want a midscope for the fighter aspect of her kit cause i think its already much better suited for a fighter any how, so it would be much easier to just continue in that direction instead of starting over from scratch

i dont think Diana's kit is assassin like AT ALL, aside from the absurd ap ratios and high burst damage, but there is much more to being a proper assassin that just having good damage, i believe she deserves a midscope that completely kills her "assassin" side of her kit and allows her to be a full fledged ap fighter, so what could that mid scope look like? here is what i personally think it should look like if it ever came.

first off, her ap ratios across the board should be absolutely gutted, dont waste any time trying to preserve her assassin side, just kill it off completely

secondly, her mana issue can properly be addressed now that we dont have to worry about any absurd damage or burst, can bring back the on hit mana from one of her old passives, or just reduce her mana cost across the board, reducing the mana from abilities would be easier and more simple, but i think the on hit mana would be more fun, and meshes well with the rest of her passive, plus it gives enemies a bit of counterplay

keep base stats the same, they feel on par with other fighters so no complaints there

keep q functionally the same, shave off 1 second from its cool down at all ranks

keep w same, slight buff to hp scaling to help make up for the ap ratio nerfs

keep e the same

moonlight buff, more should have be done with moonlight, consuming a stack of moonlight now grants a temp buff that empowering the damage of your passive with percent max hp scaling, keep the max stacks for moonlight around 2 or 3 for balance, and tie the duration of the buff with active stacks of your passive, could be as long as you are in combat, or 5 to 10 seconds to allow for a good rotation of abilities and multiple qs, plenty of ways it can be done

bring back old triple e, keep new one as well, some skill expression and outplay potential is needed for fighters, this is a great way to add that for diana

r ability should have the biggest change, completely remove all damage from r and make it pure utility focused her old e but just on steroids

reallocate all ult base damage to q w and e

allow r to apply moonlight on all enemies hit and increase the moonlight buff cap along with removing the restriction of removing all moon light stacks when using e, or at the very least increase the cap on the amount of times e can be consumed, 3 times is a good floor, diana should also gain a shield with similar hp scaling to her w, but it increase based on amount of enemies hit, increase the knock up duration of the ult to .5, and increase the slow as well

and an asu as well would be dope, would love to see her look similar to the other lunari in legends of runeterra

but yea thats about it, ive mostly played strictly bruiser diana for like the past 4 years now,

and im aware diana is also diver as well, i didnt feel the need to bring that up cause my proposed changes dont really hurt her diving ability if anything they improve it, since fighters and divers mostly like the same thing, and diana biggest contributers to her diving identity, is her lack of disengage, incentive for prolonged combat and her ult, and those still remain, so these changes would be buffs to fighter and diver diana, would also allow her to flex into top lane more often as well, not blind pickable for sure, but would make her a much safer pick thats for sure.

but yea thats it, im hoping way day riot decides to finally lean more into fighter diana, considering that what she was initially designed for, but what shoe horned into ap cause of lack proper apo fighter items, at least according to phreak, i saw riot end step talking about it a couple of times as well, so maybe its more likely than i think

feel free to respond would love to hear your thoughts and opinions