Talk:Diana/@comment-4834593-20140221094547/@comment-5606883-20140221123842

You're trying to make a hybrid champion out of someone who doesn't have hybrid scaling. All of her damaging abilities do magic damage and scale with only AP. By building AD (or even just AS, you are still focusing on physical damage) you are effectivly ignoring 4 of her 5 abilities (I'm counting passive here).

I think you're trying to make Diana into Jax. He has autoattack modifiers (W, ult-passive, and passive) and Diana has her passive. The strength of all of these is the fact that they deal both physical and magical damage, meaning that neither armor nor MR fully counter their damage. That is the OP strength of hybrid damage. But Jax is designed as a hybrid carry (Q scales off AD and AP, W scales off AD and AP, passive scales on AD and ult passive scales on AP = balance) and Diana is designed as an AP carry.

While you can build Diana as an AD/AS champ, she is going to be less effective at it against almost every AD Bruiser that she goes against mainly because her abilities *won't* scale with her items, you'll only get the base damage, and the enemy Wukong, Riven, Jarvin IV, ect. will be getting stronger autoattacks (just as Diana will) and stronger abilities thanks to items (unlike Diana).

So overall.. Viable in ranked? No. Viable in YOLO normals or ARAM? Sure, go ahead. In normals you can make Support Katarina seem viable haha :)