Talk:Diana/@comment-25912163-20150330001136/@comment-25912163-20150402073041

You are forgetting one fundametal factor: Poke

You claimed that if talon were to use e, diana would use q and trade him back. What if i told you, talon can hold on to his e until diana releases her q? If you use it while q is in mid air, it is impossible for diana to hit you with her q, and at that point even if you dont have your w, aa q will still outtrade diana shield considering it is an ad vs ap matchup.

This fact is very oppressing for diana because it forces her to eat talon w in the face and she cannot try to poke him back. In case diana holds on to her q, talon will get her to 55% hp using w over and over again.

I have seen that Jakey favors diana because of hourglass, which is understandable, but either she is going to rush it, in which case she wont have cdr and i think cdr is vital for her because it makes w and q much more reliable, and she wont have magic penetration which boosts her damage quite a lot. But these facts aside, i dont think zhonyas can block an important spell. every spell of talon hits twice. Even if you time your zhonya perfectly, they best case scenario you will dodge one part of ult and one part of w (and we assume this is lvl 10 or sth because diana already finished zhonyas) Because talon has already put down the spell damage he was going to do already, he can disengage during zhonyas, which makes him win the trade free. Also, since his ult can be used more frequently than zhonyas, next time he engages, zhonyas wont be saving diana.

Lastly, to counterbuild diana talon can buy hexdrinker. To be honest tiamat active is very overrated and getting hexdrinker instead of tiamat helps him out a lot. Because diana was not able to rush magic penetration and since hexdrinker gives 250 shield free, diana is left with no way of killing talon until mid-late game comes, in which case talon is a much more reliable and a faster assasin.