User blog comment:Care Level/Let's talk about Diana./@comment-31656015-20140310071031

A well thought out article. but just a small opinion of mine in regards to abyssal and lich bane.

Actually nvm i don't have anything to say about abyssal directly.

but on a more serious note, i'm doubtful that, nashor /grail is a better alternative to lich / scepter when you take a -very- burst oriented diana into consideration, by that i mean the older diana which goes in on a squishy 100 to 0 the target fall back and then go in again.

and in this form of diana, abyssal is arguably better because it provides more raw damage and survivability because you WILL be diving headlong into a fray with little defences, where you need to kill your target quickly before those which reasons for lich bane over nashor because like you've said it provides a lot better burst and frankly lich bane is too strong right now. ( also provides that juicy 5% movement speed bonus)

In my opinion atleast diana can choose 2 forms of building.

A squishy approach relying in raw burst and the stronger shields to flit between combat killing a target and retreating.

A tankier approach that beings out sustained damage, sticking to the carry being a pain to kill while taking them down albeit a bit slower than burst diana and moving on.

Both of these forms are so very viable and very well should be alternated because timing IS the most important thing, tankier diana might be better overall but sometimes you need burst diana to quickly 100 to 0 those   before they get rolling.

the only criticism here i'd have is that if you a player that's completely against burst diana which has it's own users, other than which is have no qualms whatsoever about the article.

Also for burst diana you'll have to be stingy and hog blue because with blue + masteries + DFG you'll have the sufficient CDR to dance around the battlefield. ( Athene and Nashor provide too little instant raw power )