Talk:Diana/@comment-25368309-20151130224144/@comment-24447033-20151201002454

That's where you're wrong. Her shield is rarely situational at all, either use while escaping or to do additional damage as well as reapply the shield. Her gap-closer is extremely reliable, it's a 9-second cooldown unmissable - targetable long-range fast travel gap closer that has a 3.6 second skill which can potentially reset the cooldown of the gap closer when on 40% cdr (which by the way is not hard for diana to build). Furthermore, her AP scaling is actually deceptively strong, at first glance it's not much, but then you always forget the 0.8 ratio on the passive. It's essentially another damage spell. Also your second statement is also somewhat incorrect. Yes, zed has untargetability (for 0.75 seconds), which won't do him much good if most of the time he can't itemize armor. Diana can and does build both armor and magic resist on items such as abyssal scepter and zhonya's hourglass which are pretty much standard items on her. She can also itemize frozen heart. Zed's 0.75 second untargetability does not make him anywhere near as tanky as diana is. And akali, has a invisibility which can be easily negated. She does not blow up anywhere near as fast as talon or zed does. She can kill people without being fed, zed suffers from that problem more than diana does. Diana can proc her ult twice within 0.5 seconds if combo'd properly leading to abysmally unfair burst damage. Her overall damage output would look like this at lvl 18 and no items:

250(+0.8 AP) from passive, 200(+0.7 AP) from Q, 210(+0.6 AP) from W, 440(+1.2 AP) from ult.

Total damage output: 1100 + (3.3 AP).

For a comparison, the damage output from Viktor (who has extremely high damage):

Total damage output: 1660 + (3.63 AP)

(This is without any items, BUT has included the upgraded hexcore for his deathray), ALSO NOTE: This includes 100% of the damage from his ultimate which lasts 7 seconds, as well as both components of his Q). As seen, Viktor who has potentially the most damage of any mage (disregarding infinites and %hp at unreasonable health), does not outrank diana by much, especially considering most of his damage is over the course of 1.5-2 seconds vs diana who can do all that damage within 0.5-1 second. If we only take into account 2 ticks of his ultimate, the damage output would drop drastically to: 1210 + (2.63 AP). which by level 18 standards would fall behind diana's damage if building full AP, even if viktor does get extra AP from his hexcore, because the AP scaling is 0.67 extra onn diana at only 110 lower base value.

She needs a minor nerf to her base defensive stats, as well as a nerf to the ratio on her passive.