Talk:Diana/Background/@comment-5606883-20121214002025/@comment-5606883-20121216003104

@anon1, if you laughed then sure- it was joke. I made it to be sarcastic though, to show that the nerf took it too far imo.

@Clonedstars Yes, her base movement speed beats about 60% of viable mid champions, ties with about 10%, while and Akali, Lee Sin, Trundle, Katarina, Talon, Warwick, and Xerath beat her MS. So during the laneing phase she will most likely have an advantage in MS- but thats not when she needs the speed. Diana needs the speed late game when she takes her actual "assassin" role. And her chasing potential depends on being able to kite + hit her Q + know when to ulti + know when to use her E + take NO slows/CC from the enemy team.

-     If the ADC hits her once with a red buff, the chase is basically gone now unless you ulti in last second- but this leaves you in a bad situation with ur ulti on cooldown now where before the nerf, she could still have a chance to catch up if she got lucky and hit a Q on close-to max range and followed that up with an ulti.

-     If you're chasing the enemy bruiser/offADC (like Fiora or Riven, for example) they'll have a frozen mallet 9 times out of 10 and all they need to do is hit you once and run --> you gain normal speed --> hit you once and run and repeat until the enemy team saves them or until they are safe by a turret or in base.

-     Any CC at all and, unless your lucky and they're dumb enough to use it at the beginning of a fight, your not gonna be able to keep chasing- you can land a Q and R at last minute, but your still slowed so all you did was do a little burst- which makes them even more scared of dying and now they are paying attention to you and will make sure to dodge your skillshots.

This may seem like common knowledge, and it basically is, but Diana is an assassin with her only CC being -basically- autoattack range only. She used to be able to do a Q --> R combo early in a chase, then if she missed her second Q she could still react quickly and ulti and still have a chance to get the kill. Now, her Q outranges her R and that means that if you don't have CDR built up (which is a bad idea for a build unless its a Nashor's Tooth....which isn't a -bad- item on her, but there are much better items) you're not going to get that kill because you can't reach them with your dash- a singature move of an assassin.... and now her's is basically cut in half.