Talk:Diana/@comment-24407429-20140516001520/@comment-1330314-20140517150940

^That's pretty much exactly it. Increasing her base AS would mean that building any attack speed on her through items would give her crazy amounts of power pretty quickly, and increasing her AS per level would make her passive extremely crappy early on. Slapping on 20% bonus attack speed from the get-go allows her to have decent starting AS without getting into insane scaling problems later on.