Diana vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Diana
based on 5,619 Diana vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Diana vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Diana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several vital Diana vs. Garen counter stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Garen..
Diana typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Diana and Garen
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Who is Better, Diana or Garen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Diana makes a good counter to Garen.
While Diana does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when facing one another, Diana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Diana into Garen.
Additionally, Diana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Garen matchups, Diana is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Diana is a decent counter to Garen. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Diana to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana on average racks up less CS as Garen. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Diana versus Garen build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Garen with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Garen as Diana, Diana players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Diana vs Garen matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.2% win rate overall.
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