Talk:Diana/@comment-25368309-20151130224144/@comment-24036535-20151130232139

Most shields have an AP scaling, in fact, Diana's is situational at best. That coupled with her low-end scalings, relatively unreliable gapcloser, and lack over damage avoidance compared to other assassins means she kinda needs to be tankier that her counterparts.

Look at it this way, other assassins like Zed, Talon, Yi, and Akali all have ways to outright avoid damage built into their kits like stealth or untargetability, Diana doesn't get that damage avoidance, hence she needs to be able to take a little bit more punishment than her counterparts so she can do her job, not to mention she relies more on some of her sustained damage in her passive and shield to kill someone, thereforce if she could be blown up instantly, she'd never kill anyone unless fed.