Diana changes on PBE

Squad5

NA
Hey all, we’ve got some Diana changes headed to PBE including Gameplay changes, new Visual Effects, and Sound Effects - we wanted to put up a post detailing what you’re going to see, and give some context for the major gameplay changes. Updated Visual Effects - similar to the VFX updates we’ve done to a number of our older champions, all of Diana’s VFX are getting at least a touch up, including new VFX for her ultimate, and better visuals on her passive. Updated Sound Effects - again, similar to the SFX updates we’ve done, all of her SFX are getting touched up at least, notably her shield and dashes should be a lot more noticeable, as well as all new SFX for her ultimate and her passive. ---------------------------------------------------------------- We’ve got some gameplay changes aimed at helping Diana’s pre 6 lane, and making both the playing as and against experience of Diana less feast or famine. The first gameplay change I’ll talk about is the biggest one - we’re switching Diana’s current E (Moonfall) and R (Lunar Rush) abilities and making changes to them to respect their new roles on the kit. Here are the tooltips for the two abilities (bonus new icons!): https://i.imgur.com/LQlMzqF.png[/img] https://i.imgur.com/QfEFaDB.png[/img] Lunar Rush should be familiar, functionally the same as her old ultimate with its changes being primarily tuning based. The Moonfall changes add a new, ultimate level source of damage onto Diana’s kit that she can use for solo assassinations or go for the big play of getting a massive teamfight winning vacuum. Having access to Lunar Rush early should give Diana more agency in lane to maneuver, and give her more options than simply trying to survive until level level 6. Or in the case of jungle Diana, make her clear and ganking patterns stronger. New Moonfall gives Diana a new tuning lever to hopefully make her more enjoyable to play both as and against. One of the core problems Diana currently has is a lack of variance when she attacks her enemies. She trains them down with multiple dashes and if she’s winning she likely kills them without much recourse, but if she’s losing she likely can’t dish out enough damage and simply loses the fight. With the addition of a bigger moment to play around, opponents can attempt to get out of Moonfall’s detonation, while Diana can look for a big multi-opponent cast to pull out extra damage. This swap should overall help both the laning and later game concerns that Diana players have, and hopefully also reduce some of the frustration that her opponents feel. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The second change is one that will probably be of more interest to more invested Diana players - changes to the way her passive works. Here’s the new tooltip (level 1 value): https://i.imgur.com/TMhGMLL.png[/img] Here are the mechanical differences from her current passive: * Decoupled Attack Speed from Moonfall’s rank (now scales with character level) * Always grants a baseline Attack Speed bonus rather than only after spell casts * Spell casts now increase the bonus * Passive cleave no longer grants mana Diana’s passive had a lot of rules and mechanics that were put in for specific reasons to tune her lane or her jungle respectively, and after taking a look at them we decided that we could afford to clean them up and simplify the passive back down while instead making adjustments to her base stats and mana costs to make her feel better overall. This passive version should hopefully be a nice throwback to her original passive while still maintaining the spell weaving gameplay of her current passive. There’s a lot more tuning that I haven’t mentioned, and more to be done on PBE with the feedback we get, but I look forward to everyone getting to take a look at our favorite moon aspect’s new changes.

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CaptainAntiHeroz (NA)
is this all arriving later today?
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Squad5 (NA)
Yep, should be on PBE today!

CaptainAntiHeroz (NA)
> **Squad5 \(NA\) said:** Yep, should be on PBE today! coooooooooool thanks

André Flower Boy (EUW)
That's if the patch does get released today. ;) #tea

oscar the grouch (NA)
These look really solid! Can't wait to test them out

Legendar1o (EUNE)
Any ETA? :)

Lee Sang hye0k (EUW)
How about Fiddle ?

Simvic (EUW)
I would like to see some Yuumi changues. :)

Galiö (NA)
Just my thoughts, and some of it isnt so serious. Why does E have 'fluff' text with being the embodiment of the moon? Also decoupling her attack speed from spell rank seems ok/good but many games seem to end around 27 minutes (something I spam often) and around level 14 so I feel as if having abilities scale by level up to 18 is a hindrance to those characters power fantasies for those who want to man-max kits other than stretching out a game just to meet that goal. Its nothing super detrimental to the champion just something I'm not a fan of seeing, personally. I love these change directions and hope more champions get this kind of love! Huge fan of light reworks and remasters.

EssenceFox (NA)
Are you still planning on Lunar Rush to clear moonlight off of all targets when used, like the prior ult form of it?

HommeGoujon (NA)
Unrelated but will Aphelios be available on PBE today as well?

Hiztorizze (EUW)
im main and i so Hyped!!!!

Moonscourge (EUW)
While I love changes to my main, I'm really bothered by this as well. There will be zero playmaking potential outside of her ultimate. The old E was such a strong ability to catch somebody with, stop their dashes or simply pull them in after jumping to a minion. Losing that potential is going to feel awkward. Not to mention that the long cooldown really only gives you one chance at doing that. I'll have to see.

Seraρh (EUW)
These changes look really good! It seems like you listened to some stuff that was put out in the Diana community and worked that into a nice small rework that keeps the current identity of the champ while also giving her a more modern design. I was really pessimistic about these changes because as a more experienced Diana player (2k games or so) I was afraid of losing the champ I love. I think you have done a great job! Of course we'll have to see the numbers but I'm really looking forward to try that out. Great job with this one!

Celio Hogane HD (EUW)
nice

The Lunari (EUNE)
Just wanna say thank you, so far it looks amazing! Looking forward for PBE!

World Ender (NA)
How do these changes affect her jungle, especially her early clearing? Would you say power up, down, or neutral?

Moon Mom (NA)
As a Diana OTP I'm so excited! Can't wait to see how everything feels. Thanks for taking a look at her!

Archangel Axis (NA)
This update is Superb! Simple, clean changes. I hope we get more like this in the future. Great job!

Deyana Main (EUW)
My concern is not having mana on cleave tho, and a 100 sec cd ultimate on an assassin ish champ seems a bit too much... and as a roa nashors otp for years, i'd rather have a shield instead of the slow in the new R, so "bruiser" diana could be more effective... anyways im happy diana got some love, cant wait to see how her laning phase improves vs hard match ups.{{champion:131}} {{sticker:sg-zephyr}}

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