Originally posted by The Great Galen
Well she did have to eventually resort to her trinkets, she realized the situation was futile and that outcome would certainly not be in her favor. The fight was more of a testament to her abilities but it did have a taint of PIS considering he has defeated more imposing foes with less effort in the past..althought I dont know why that matters because SS doesnt have Supes combat abilities.
She only used her tiara at the VERY end while she was interrogating Lord. She just needed to temporarily subdue him, while she got the answers from Lord. She didn't want to let him out of the lasso, so the tiara was her best option. She tried to use the lasso and kryptonite dagger, but was unsuccessful. The situation was futile, but not for the reasons you are saying. She only had 3 options - (1) Use her lasso to break him from Lord's control; that didn't work (2) Kill him: something Diana didn't want to do and probably wasn't capabale of doing without prep; (3) distract him long enough to get to the source of the problem, Lord. When 1 didn't work, she went to the next best option, number 3.
And to ultimatethor, it is silly to assume she is not capable of doing something that is obviously in her skill set. Do you have any on panel evidence that would lead us to believe that she is NOT capable of combat at those speeds? If so, then I'll retract the point. If not, then given all of the other evidence of her speed and agility and her own belief that she is faster than Clark, I'm inclined to believe that she is capable of fighting at those speeds. She has to think and move just as fast to repel the attacks others have shown in this thread as she would for physical attacks. You just view her incredible reflex speeds and skill to be off point. I view them as being directly reflective of her COMBAT abilities. This is all part of her training as an Amazon.