Talk:Diana/@comment-25562166-20150319213915/@comment-10943377-20150324233229

My previous post answered your question of how to win the Diana v Lissandra match up.

This post is to argue your point about how imbalanced it is for Diana to have a high dps skill and a burst kit while being tanky. Again this falls down to her initial design.

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You're right a fighter should not be an assassin but saying they are not allowed burst in any form is insane their are a lot of fighters with burst. Heck one of the most obnoxious examples of a bruiser who is also an assassin is full AD Jarvan or worse semi-damage build Jarvan cus he can solo u and tank with only two damage items (slightly exaggerated).

In my opinion the issue you identified with Diana also exists with Jarvan. If you go full damage he tanks massively and has dps enhancements and burst in his kit. In a very similiar fashion to full damage build Diana. Call it the bruiser fault because it exists for a lot of bruisers actually.

Now that I think about it Vi actually plays slightly similiar to initial Diana's concept though it is still different, you can see some similiar traits.

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As for why Diana has a shield and a dps passive it is because she was designed to be an all in initiator who would just cause havok and survive, she does not have a reliable escape like most assassins do. Her play pattern turned out to function as an assassin diving in and outputting a lot of focussed damage in the form of her Q->Ult->Ult. The passive is their for the situation where she used her gap closer to gap close rather than assassinate.

Though she was originally designed as a jungler her all-in initiator design still exists.

But because you want to constantly make a comparison to Diana to Akali, I want to raise a counter argument.

Why does an assassin with a point and click style of play similiar to Diana get to experience sustain in her kit. She is about bursting her enemies not about dueling in a dps fight like with Irelia's W and Cassio's health return. Ahri I can understand because it is less frequent and it's due to her being designed as a mage who is suspectible to damage when going for aggresive trades (low W range and low ult bolt range).

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Other assassins don't get a high shield due to the utility of their kits allowing them to regularly gap close and maneuver in fights. Even Akali has less restrcitive movement patterns than Diana.

TL;DR Diana all in has these features. Other melee assassins have the same defensive bonuses but better more reliable utility in many forms.