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Recommended Items
Spells:
Flash
Smite
Items
Ability Order
Moonsilver Blade (PASSIVE)
Diana Passive Ability
Introduction

Hi guys, welcome to my

As it is my first build and not in my mother-tongue, please give me constructive feedback about the things you will read in it !
In this guide, I will try to teach you how to build and play

I hope you will read my entire guide and try to master this incredible champion which can lead your team to the victory !

+ High speed cleaning jungle. + High mobility and surprising damage for ganks. + Gap closer and slow, perfect for your job. + Tons of damages if fed. + Pleasant to play. |
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- High mana consumption. - Hard to gank effectively before level 6. - Crowd controls will annihilate her burst. - Can be easily destroyed if she jumps in the ennemy team impulsively, you're an offtank, but not indestructible. |
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MoonSilver Blade:(passive)
A small AOE passive which allows you to clear quickly and effectively the jungle, it scales well with your ability power and is a great part of your damage in team fights.
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Pale Cascade:
A shield that creates three orbs of light, each one dealing aoe damage to any unit which collide with them. If the three orbs explode, the shield refreshes. This spell makes
![]() While laning, it can be cast to deal instant damage to minions you would have missed. -This is a great spell to jungle, as it negates most of the damage you would take, and dealing damage at the same time, improving your jungling speed. |

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Moonfall:
This is one of the most important skill of
![]() Using this will allow you to keep ennemies at auto-attack range while chasing them. -Perfect for ganks, just click on your E to bring back that little running Teemo to you and your allies. |

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Lunar Rush:
Your ultimate skill, a terrible gap-closer which has
no cooldown if you hit a target marked with ![]() -This is your initiating/escaping tool, use it wisely. |

Runes





You can also choose

However, your early jungle will be harder.




Offense tree:
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Fury stacks well with
Moonsilver Blade and your
Greater Mark of Attack Speed
Sorcery 5% cdr is great for spamming your spells.
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Mental Force gives you 16AP at level 18, why not.
Arcane Mastery gives you 8 ability power more, a great mastery for a big starter.
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Executioner allows you to deal extra damage to champions below 50% health, that's a great tool to make an ennemy very low while ganking.
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Archmage increases your ability power by 5%, a must have since you will not always get a
Rabadon's Deathcap
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Dangerous Game is really awesome, how many times i was killed with the last damage from
Ignite after killing an ennemy, this will never happen again !
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Arcane Blade works well with
Moonsilver Blade
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Havoc increases your damage by 3%, good to have.
Denfense tree:
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Enchanted Armor gives you an extra 5% armor and magic resist, perfect!
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Tough Skin allows you to negate some of monster's damage in the jungle.
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Veteran's Scars gives you 36 health at level 1, always good to have.
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Bladed Armor burn the jungle's monsters when they hit you, allowing you to be faster in your jungle.
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Juggernaut gives you 3% maximum health, just awesome!
These two summoner spells are, in my opinion, the only viable spells you can pick.
Flash allows you to engage, secure a kill and can as well be used as an escape mechanism since you can't always
Crescent Strike +
Lunar Rush away.
Smite is the best summoner spell to jungle, you need it to jungle. I mean, you NEED it.
I know that some junglers can jungle easily without it like
Warwick or
Fiddlesticks but that's not the point.
Smite allows you to secure buffs/Dragon/Baron at the same time that it allows you to steal the enemies'.
Moreover, the jungle speed you win by smiting monsters allows you to gank faster, and to "OMFG HE'S ALREADY HERE" the ennemy.
You NEED
Smite




I know that some junglers can jungle easily without it like



Moreover, the jungle speed you win by smiting monsters allows you to gank faster, and to "OMFG HE'S ALREADY HERE" the ennemy.
You NEED

Let's see some tricks you can make with
Diana's skills, knowing them will help you a lot during your games, and with the time you will use them automatically:


- When jungling, try to be in the middle of the monster camp, this way you will hit all the monsters in that camp.
- When attacking structures, be sure to position yourself near the ennemy creep's wave for extra push.
- These are significant damage on squishy targets, don't forget to use that third auto-attack well.

- Reveals the targets for three seconds except stealth ones.
- Useful to check the bushes or monster camps as Nashor.

- Always activate it before going into the melee, for maximum damages and survivability.
- Make sure all your orbs explodes for extra shield.
- Damage stealth opponents.

- Can pull ennemies over wall.
- Significant slow and disruption when chasing down ennemies.
- Break channelled abilities like Fiddle's
Bountiful Harvest.

- Never forget that the cooldown is refreshed if you hit a unit which is marked with
Crescent Strike's Moonlight.
- You do not need to wait
Crescent Strike to hit your target before landing
Lunar Rush, with perfect timing, you'll be able to hit the target with the two spells at once, example in the video.
- If used when you're near your opponent, your will rush behind him.
- In combination with
Crescent Strike, you can jump over walls using monster camps.
MAIN COMBO
Your main combo consist in landing
Crescent Strike, activating
Pale Cascade and then to
Lunar Rush on your target, which will most of the time try to run away from you. In this case you just have to pop your
Moonfall, keep auto-attacking and start your combo again if he's not already dead.
This combo is as good for laning and for ganking.




This combo is as good for laning and for ganking.
JUNGLING COMBO
Before starting the monster camp, activate
Pale Cascade, then
Crescent Strike the entire camp and keep auto-attacking until your cooldowns refreshes.
Try not to activate
Pale Cascade when the monster camp is almost finished, the cooldown isn't that low and you may need it for the next camp.
You have to
Lunar Rush the ennemy as soon as you used
Moonfall, this way you will
Lunar Rush to the ennemy previous location as he will be pulled to your previous one.
This combo can be used as well for chasing or escaping.


Try not to activate

EARLY GANK
Before your level 6, you don't have any gap-closer, the only way to effectively gank is to first communicate with your ally, this way he can let the ennemy wave push. Then you have to bypass the ennemy to surround him, forcing him to flash away through you. At this moment just pop
Moonfall, you and your ally shouldn't have any problem to finish him down.
You can also gank rushing toward the ennemy, surprise
Flash +
Moonfall to let your allies come closer and chase them down as they are slowed.
Be sure to use
Moonfall in the opposit direction of ennemy retreat !

You can also gank rushing toward the ennemy, surprise


Be sure to use

ESCAPING
You can use this combo to reveal jungle monsters and escape from tricky situations.
You can also escape using
Lunar Rush on minions and even on another ennemy champion.
You can also escape using

STEALING BUFFS
As your escape mechanism, you can check ennemy buffs or important monster camps with
Crescent Strike, then the only thing to practice and master is the timing, knowing when to jump to smite the Dragon is really important.
Just click on the dragon when it's revealed by moonlight or a ward to see its remaining health and wait until it has just 100hp more than your smite damage, then jump in, smite the dragon and flash away !

Just click on the dragon when it's revealed by moonlight or a ward to see its remaining health and wait until it has just 100hp more than your smite damage, then jump in, smite the dragon and flash away !
SWITCHING POSITIONS


You have to



This combo can be used as well for chasing or escaping.
Here comes the main part of this build, in this part, i will explain to you the basics of jungling, the importance and the use of the buffs, your role as a jungler, and how to have a good map awareness.
- THE JUNGLE:
The jungle is the part between the lanes, where neutral monsters live. They are quite hard to kill so you need a character which has a lot of survivability like shields, spell vamp or life steal.
Among these monsters, you can find important ones, the buff monsters, the


Those 2 last monsters are common goals for both teams and will create lots of fights.
Let's check the map:

Primary Targets
![]() Dragon Initial Spawn: 2:30 Dragon respawns in 6 minutes The ![]() |
![]() Baron Initial Spawn: 15:00 Baron respawns in 7 minutes The ![]() When fighting it, it will apply debuffs on you which increase by 25% all magical damages you will take, stacking up to 10 times (250%). Knowing this, you HAVE TO KNOW where the ennemy team is if you're attempting to kill it. Killing it will grant 300 golds for each of your team-mates and a great buff: ![]() You usually want to kill ![]() |
Secondary Targets
![]() Initial Spawn: 1:55 Respawns in 5 minutes The ![]() ![]() |
![]() Initial Spawn: 1:55 Respawns in 5 minutes The ![]() ![]() This is the buff you want for your ganks, as it slows the ennemy while dealing true damage over the time. Later, you want to give this buff to your AD carry, allowing him to deal more damage and to slow the running ennemies. |
Normal Targets
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And the new big camp, the Wight, which is near from the Ancient Golem, I still don't have an image for it, but he looks like a Wraith.
These monsters spawns at 2:05 and respawns 50 seconds after beeing killed.
You will have to farm them to keep your level up.
You will have to farm them to keep your level up.
- GANKING:
As some of you already know, the jungler is oftenly criticized, and they are right !
Everyone knows that you are failing your match against this basterd

You will often read "maokai ganked 5 times and you 0", "OMG this jungler", "Why stealing all blues ??". And you don't have to care about these messages !
And by the way, i invite you to read this excellent guide, and every player in the game will thank you for reading it, so please
As a jungler, it is true that your role is to gank, but you can't gank 3 lanes at the same time 24/7 just because they can't deal with the ennemy.
So what can you do to avoid this ? Nothing.
But the only thing i can say to you, is to use your own JUDGEMENT. Don't gank a lane because you were asked to.
The best thing to do is to practice, to learn what you and your character can do, then use your best judgement to do the best possible gank.
A “gank” is to create an advantage against a certain situation. So by going to a lane that your laner is still in, you are ganking that lane (the advantage is now 2v1 or 3v2, an extra person in the lane).
Surprising the ennemy and inflicting him hard CC to take him down or to make him use summoner spells.
If you come in lane and make the ennemy flash away, DO NOT STAY IN THE LANE. The champion in that lane needs the gold and experience if you want them to be effective late game.
Moreover, nobody can stand a jungler who comes up, fails a gank and then steals all the minions.
If the ennemy used his flash, your job is done and you can return to your jungle and let your ally in a strong position.
If you suceed your gank, you may want to hit the ennemy tower, this will help you progress in the game.
- COUNTER JUNGLING:
Do you feel like your jungle isn't enought ? That you are stronger than the ennemy jungler ? That you want to screw his jungle ? Try the Counter Jungling !
How ? By going in the ennemy jungle to steal his buffs/camps, and even killing him while he's jungling.
This seems great, but all rewarding things are risky, and by going in the ennemy jungle without a good map awareness, knowing where the ennemy is and without escapes is really dangerous !
Start putting wards at the buff you want to steal, make sure his allies doesn't see you, outsmite his buff and GTFO of here ! Doing so, you will steal his experience, money and gank potential. Which is a great advantage for ALL your team.
You can also clean the camps if you see the ennemy jungler trying to gank somewhere or if you know he's at base or dead. Always leave ONE monster that gives the lowest experience, the timer of the buff you just steal will only beggin when this little monster will be killed. This is a great way to slow the ennemy jungler.
- WARDING:
I will teach you a great lesson today, warding isn't only the Support job ! Yes my fellow laners, just because you want to buy that


All lanes should be warded to counter ennemy ganks and protect objectives.
As a jungler, you are roaming everywhere on the map, and this is your duty to put wards where the laners can't go without losing lot of experience and golds.

- Important wards: These are the wards to cover the Dragon and Baron Nashor, try to always keep them in sight with a pink ward to unward ennemie's.
- Defense wards: These wards are mainly used by the laners, to protect themselves against the ennemy jungler, you can also help them if they are really in trouble with money or just stupid enought not to buy wards.
- Situational wards: Usually, these wards are used when the ennemy is dominating you, or when you are expecting invasion or a lane gank.
- Invasion wards: I told you in previous chapter that you had to ward the ennemy jungle to counter it, these are the locations of the wards you want to put to steal buffs.
And if you want more details about warding, here is a great guide for you: Click on me !
- MAP AWARENESS:
This is the most important chapter for you, my fellow junglers ! Your most important duty, more than your ganks, and here is why you're one of the most important role in League of Legend.
I know that yourDiana is a beautiful champ, but i will ask you not to stare at her all the time. I know it's hard but, the thing you have to check the most of is your minimap in the right corner of your screen.
This map is guiding you, telling you what you have to do, and you have to listen to it, all the time !
Here is a test for you, look at my jungling phase.
Was it nice ? I knew you would like it !
But did you see the ennemyVi coming at my botlane to gank it?
That's the kind of things you HAVE to see and share with your mates, while you're not focusing on last-hitting or continuously fighting against an ennemy, you have all the time you need to check your minimap and predict ganks.
Seeing the ennemy jungler can mean two things:- If you're near to the ganked lane : Inform your team and help them as soon as possible, abort all your jungling stuff and save your allies.
- If you're far to the ganked lane : Inform your team and go for some counter jungling or ganks as you know where the ennemy jungler is.
Knowing where the ennemy is is one the the most important things in League of Legend, you and the support are the most efficient roles to ward, predict and inform your team on the enemy location.
For more information about jungling, you are very welcome to read those guides which are really good:
As I said in the previous chapter, the jungler has a good map awareness and map control, he's scouting, ganking and invading everywhere he pleases, am I right

This makes you able to lead your team to take objectives whenever it's possible to.
This works for every objective in the game, but be careful, your allies are trusting you, don't bring them into a trap !
Moreover, as

And this is the way I feel when i'm leading my team to that damn Victory !
And if you want some more informations, please check this out : Raising Morale And Leading Your Team
Your initial role as an assassin is to quickly kill the ennemy AD or AP carry.
But since you're playing in the jungle as an AP offtank, you have two ways of dealing with teamfights.
- You can play as an assassin, positionning yourself behind the ennemy team, waiting engagement from your tank and going in, bursting down the ennemy carries.
- If your team has a lack of engagement, you can also do this job, just
Crescent Strike them,
Lunar Rush in,
Moonfall the entire team and
Zhonya's Hourglass, waiting for your team to deal massive damage as the 5 ennemies are slowed and regrouped.
When your Zhonya's Hourglass ends, your goal is to melt squishy targets, if they're still alive.
Make sure your team is aware of what you're doing, don't jump in impulsively without saying anything, it would just be a suicide.
Starting Items
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helps you a lot during your early jungling phase. |
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X5 should allow you to clean your jungle and staying almost full life for your first ganks. |
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will allow you to to clean an early ward for free, instoring fear into ennemy's spirits, huehuehue! And allowing you to earn some money too. |
Core Items
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allows you to roam everywhere and make impressive ganks. |
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for decent amount of AP and armor. |
Must Have
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gives you a good amount of AP and armor, and the active will save you a lot of time ! |
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is one of the best items on ![]() |
Offensive Items
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gives you an insane amount of AP, you can buy this item if you are really dominating your game. Remember that you role here isn't to be damage dealer. |
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is a really nice item for you, good AP, cooldown reduction, great attack speed and passive which scales perfectly with your ![]() |
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has to be done only if the ennemy team stacks a lot of magic resistance. |
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isn't that good anymore on Diana with its nerf. |
Situationnal Items
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is great since you're always in the middle of the teamfight, this and your ![]() |
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Only buy this if the ennemy team has a lot of magic damage. |
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is good if you want to stay in the melee and deal great auto-attack damage, also gives you a good survivability with its passive. |
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is also good, giving you both AP and health, in my opinion the passive isn't that great, especially with nukers as ![]() |
If the game goes well for you, you can think about selling your
Spirit of the Spectral Wraith for one of those items, doing so, you'll be a toolbox for your allies, helping them chasing or escaping from risky situations.

Talisman of ascension |
almost gives you the same health and mana regeneration as ![]() |
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gives you a nice amount of AP and the ability to damage and slow one ennemy and allies around him by 50% for 2 seconds. |
Both of them are really nice, the talisman of ascension is versatile, and the
Frost Queen's Claim is more agressive.

Well, thank you for reading my Diana guide, I hope it will help you a lot.
Please send me your feedback about the guide, comments and feelings !
Doing this guide was really interesting and if you like the way I built it, please share this with me and feel free to ask anything if you want !
Thank you again, enjoy !
Please send me your feedback about the guide, comments and feelings !
Doing this guide was really interesting and if you like the way I built it, please share this with me and feel free to ask anything if you want !
Thank you again, enjoy !
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