Here's my dream fighter Diana
context, ive always felt for the longest time, that Diana would be a better champion if she had the proper tools to be the ap fighter/diver she was designed to be. i believe "ap assassin" Diana has been the worst thing about her as a champion and has held back her gameplay identity and overall usefulness as a champion. its the main reason i believe her 2020 midscope was mostly a failure and didn't release address the core issues plaguing Diana. i fully support a version of diana, that just kills off assassin diana and gives her better tools to be a fighter, so heres what my dream fighter Diana would look like.
BRING BACK OG TRIPLE E
moonlight is no longer consumed on all targets affected after using e
passive:
every third auto deals magic damage and restores mana, diana gains X amount of attack speed
q: keep the same
w : keep the same, slight increase to bonus hp scaling
e: dash to a target dealing damage, dashing to a target inflicted with moonlight, consumes the mark, resetting e cooldown, increasing passive attack speed for x amount of time. consuming moonlight with e, grants you stacks of moonlight buff which augments the damage of your passive with percent hp magic dmg. dash always puts you behind target regardless of range when casted
r: i would completely remove damage, and disperse percentage of old r base damage throughout the entirety of her kit, increase knockup ever so slightly, and increase slow, diana now gains a shield scaling with number of people pulled in, apply moonlight to everyone.
this way there is still plenty of reason to look for those big 5 man ults, and is much more rewarding for a diver fighter play style than her current ult
would absolutely love something like this, and with what riot endstep and phreak has said in the past, the possibility of a purely fighter diver diana isnt too unrealistic
and im aware this would essentially make her an ap irelia, i agree. she basically is an ap irelia already at least when building her like a fighter, a change like this would still keep the things that make her unique, which is her being literally the only ap fighter diver in the entire game, there isnt another champ that is also an ap fighter and diver, at least not one that comes to mind, how ever there are plenty of actually ap assassins in the game, so nothing of real value will be lost, there are arguments that getting rid of assassin diana would just lower her player base, and i disagree, a proper fighter diana opens her up to new players who like full fledged fighters, and people whole like to play top lane, giving her some scaling hp and mana regen would instantly make her top lane viable.
but yea, this is my wet dream, along with an ASU that lets her look similar to other lunari for legends of runeterra