Alistar vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Alistar
based on 2,208 Alistar vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Diana Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Alistar Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
D
F
Skill Order
q
w
e
Runes
p
q
w
e
r
Guide to Countering Diana as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Diana
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
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.
Alistar vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Alistar versus Diana counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Diana. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Diana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Diana
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Alistar or Diana?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when facing off against Diana, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a poor counter for Diana.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Diana, when facing one another, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Dianaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Diana. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Diana.
Other Champion Matchups Against Alistar
Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Alistar Players
How We Calculated Our Alistar vs Diana Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often gets less CS compared to Diana. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Alistar versus Diana build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Diana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when countering Diana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Diana as Alistar, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Alistar vs Diana counters, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
If you need to get Alistar vs Diana tips and builds for a an individual rank, please choose one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the stats and build suggestions displayed are computed using all rounds played with these champions.