Introduction
Hello!
This is my first guide i have ever made, and i hope you will find it helpfull.
Tips are welcome how to make this build even more skillfull!
Here goes:
is the newest addition to Riot's very potent pool of Heroes, and she is as dangerous as she looks.
She is a very fast and agressive jungler with lots of gankingpotential and a brilliant initiator once you have hourglass. Pick Diana, learn to play and you are set for some real good games.
There is two additional builds for
Diana here aswell wich i have tested and they work alright.
Runes
Runes are pretty standard.
AP Quintessences for some AP boost early game to speed up jungling.
MP Marks to make sure you're spells hurt as much as they are suppose to.
or
AP Marks if you got that laying around and are short on IP
Armor Seals to give you more survivability.
CDR Glyphs to make sure you can use those dangerouse attacks as often as you need.
Items
BUILD SEQUENCE
Star with
Boots of Speed and 3 health potions, this to make you more mobile and faster to reach ganks and speed up jungling even more. adding
Kage's Lucky Pick ensure you will have gold poring in and is the step for you're first core item,
Deathfire Grasp. This item now makes you very dangerouse against any champ on the map, and provide some nice CDR for better gankingpotential and faster jungling.
Now for more sustain get a
Giant's Belt, and finish
Rylai's Crystal Scepter. Now this is great, you now have mobility, sustain and good gankingpotential. its time to now create a mid/lategame menace! By now you're enemy will realize what treath you are and start building Magic res, so you finis the boots and build
Sorcerer's Shoes. However if the enemy team is filled with CC you can choose mercury treads aswell here.
Next to add better sustain in close combat and initiate (Q), add a
Sheen. Now you're attacks will hurt in melee aswell every time sheen procs ;).
Needlessly Large Rod -->
Zhonya's Hourglass makes you a perfect initiator for mid/lategame, and will also be a free "oh ****" button while addding increased survivability within combat.
Wrap up the shizzle by adding another
Needlessly Large Rod into a
Rabadon's Deathcap before finishing the build by adding
Lich Bane due to the amazing Sheen proc + movementspeed.
Other viable items depending on oponents are:
Abyssal Scepter - for increased magic def and decrease opponents magic res.
Athene's Unholy Grail - if you need to share blue
Thornmail if you are up against 5 AD. (i have tried this and it works well)
Mejai's Soulstealer
So in short you're build should look like this
Earlygame Options
Cloth Armor
Health Potion x5
or
Boots of Speed x4
this depens on how comfortable you are jungling, but boots wil help you get in position faster to cast
Moonfall to secure kills.
Build 2:
In the second build i have chosen more Mana regeneration, and some other minor tweaks in items.
As you can see the start is identical from the first build, the changes is quite clear and ment to make
Diana less Blue dependent, and has both
Trinity Force and
Shurelya's Reverie included to make you more mobile, and able to flee combat better. With
Trinity Force you also get more dmg out when sticking on you're target without sacrificing to much AP for AD items.
Build 2:
Build 3:
Optional items here are:
or other items viable according to opponents
Pros / Cons
Pros
+ Great junglingspeed
+ Amazing ganker past lvl 6
+ Sexy
+ Unique and fun playstyle
+ Great initiator with
Zhonya's Hourglass and shield
+ Insane Burst dmg
Cons
- Squishy earlygame
- Need atleast a point in E to be usefull for ambush (lvl4),
- Need to be lvl 6 to be scary as heck
- Her passive trick people to go AD = fail
- Drinks mana like i drink beer :/
Creeping / Jungling
Easymode.
Start on blue, clear to top.
Check if Gank top is possible
check opponents blue (remember you can outgank most junglers especially if you take
Exhaust instead of
Flash for that early kill).
In other words, move from creep pack to creep pack and be effective while maintaining you're buffs. Help gank, but don't stay to steal laners XP/Gold. That goes the same way so laners do not steal you're blue/Red as without blue
Diana will need to zone back freequently unless buildt for Mp5. It is possible to build Manaregen, but that will cost you a lot of potential in the long run.
Team Work
Look for ganks and help lanes whenever possible/needed.
Once you have
Zhonya's Hourglass do not be afraid to initiate by: Q-W-R-
Zhonya's Hourglass.
IF the team understands what is happening this will in most cases mean a won team fight.
When you Jungle, you're team rely on you to come gank quite frequently. The one thing you might want to consider is to split the kills when you gank.
Does the person(s) in lane have control of that lane?
if the answer is YES, feel free to last-hit. However if they struggle to hold the line, a kill is probably just what they need to get some advantage on the person they lane against so make sure you can settle for an assist as well sometimes ;) If you're team got control over their lanes it means more time to jungle and counter jungle!
Remember if you kill the opponents jungler he can't gank can he ^^ (at least for sometime)
Unique Skills
This guide Does not include some "secret" skills that have an edge above others.
However it is a AP rape build i find most effective after playing Diana a lot since release.
Farming
Diana is great for farming and saving towers from waves of minions mid/lategame, but it is VERY important from the start that you farm constantly to be able to reach the potential you got
Q-W-R is the magic minionwave nuker;)
She is quick, got great burst so wherever you choose to jungle or lane she will farm very well, as long as you have mana that is ^^
Summary
So Overall, this is how i see it fit to play
Diana, and its quite straight forward.
If anyone has suggestions feel free to post a comment and i will try solutions and update this guide accordingly.
Id like to express my gratitude to Torgozh and Savexx for great inspiration during late night gaming ;)
Until next time.
Patheticme