Diana vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Diana
based on 15,797 Diana vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Caitlyn
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
Advice to Win Against Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Diana vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Diana in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Diana against Caitlyn counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Caitlyn’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Caitlyn..
Diana often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes more damage than Caitlyn. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Diana or Caitlyn?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Caitlyn, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Diana makes an ok counter for Caitlyn.
While Diana does have a higher win rate than Caitlyn, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Diana into Caitlyn.
Furthermore, Diana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This often 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 Diana vs Caitlyn matchups, Diana is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Diana is a decent counter for Caitlyn. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Diana to counter Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically picks up less CS as Caitlyn. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts 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 values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Diana versus Caitlyn build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Diana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Caitlyn than with most other common item sets. In fact, Diana had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing against Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Caitlyn as Diana, Diana players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Diana vs Caitlyn LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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