Talk:Diana/@comment-24703382-20140318175201/@comment-14369738-20140321012850

Nashor's on offtank Diana makes her dueling power just stupid. AP items let her stack offense, resistances, and health quite well together, and her shield exemplifies this. Rod + Grail + Zhonya's makes for a stubborn assassin with the 3rd highest scaling burst (Xer and Veig) in the game, and the highest DPS of anyone in that range. Lich is almost a waste though, the nerf makes it hurt her burst more than it helps it. She already has 330% AP combo off QWRRpassive, or QRpassive 210% on 5 sec repeat (way less for passive). It's hard for lich bane to match those scalings vs. comparable items, and on a true bruiser build you have limited slots for fully offensive items, so you get even less for it.

TLDR: it takes 3 hits every 5 seconds for nashor's to outdo lich in a fistfight. In an assassination lich is outclassed by an item that gives more AP or a defensive stat as well, as this is simply more welcome thanks to the inspid scalings on her kit already. Lich is for low scaling assassins (see: fizz, TF, etc) with some safety to artificially bump weak burst, and Diana fits no part of this definition.