Talk:Diana/@comment-24035110-20150217172325/@comment-24040326-20150218050904

"dodging a skillshot?"

This.

As Syndra, you should be bullying Diana heavy (like, REAL heavy) pre-6, Which almost guarantees a good early game for you, where you can (and should) get boots ASAP.

It's funny that you mentioned Veigar, since his lack of counterplay made his Q to be reworked into a skillshot. (Albeit a broken one atm on PBE).

You should try to avoid her Q and bait her R, if Diana does this you can Q+E her and bye Diana.

Also it's not like Syndra can cast her spells while moving, you can actually counterpoke with Syndra as you Q+Right Click to avoid Diana's Q.

Also don't try to tell me she has no counterplay, her Lunar Rush only resets if she lands her Q first. Pale Cascade is a pretty good shield/mini nuke with that speed buff, but she still needs to be in melee range and hit something for her to have the shield. Her passive might have too much scaling (if Lich Bane then hue), still, she needs to hit you three times for her to proc it. As Syndra I doubt you would stand there looking how she AAs you.

Her E is pretty good, but it has a long cooldown and literally does no damage (Hi Kalista R), given the nature of Diana's kit it's unlikely she will buy too much CDR so there's that. Also unlike some other forms of hard CC/displacements/slows (Hi Kalista R again), she can't use it to escape effectively (Well technically she could, but as a squishy probably low HP/MP APC assassin she doesn't want anyone in her comfort zone, a mistake many Dianas do thinking this could probably save them).

I had your same problem laning against pre-Rework Gragas until I learned taking boots instead of Doran's made life oh so much easier.