Akshan vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Akshan
based on 2,860 Akshan vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Diana
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Akshan vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Akshan in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Akshan vs. Diana counter statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Diana..
Akshan often has a similar longest killing spree as their enemy does. Commonly, they takes less damage than Diana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Akshan or Diana?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually fairs equally well when taking on Diana, with a 49.0% win rate. Thus, Akshan makes an ok counter for Diana.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Diana, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akshan into Diana.
Moreover, Akshan has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akshan is a somewhat poor counter for Diana. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Akshan to counter Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan most often accumulates more CS compared to Diana. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Akshan versus Diana build consist of Rapid Firecannon, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Akshan included at least these three items in their build, they did much better countering Diana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Akshan boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when playing against Diana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Diana as Akshan, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Akshan vs Diana battles, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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