Diana vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Diana
based on 11,194 Diana vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Diana vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Diana in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable Diana versus Jax counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jax..
Diana often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes less damage than Jax. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Diana and Jax
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Who is Better, Diana or Jax?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Diana usually loses when facing off against Jax, with a 48.6% win rate. As a result, Diana makes a poor counter to Jax.
While Diana does have a lower winrate compared to Jax, when on opposite teams, Diana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Diana into Jax.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Jax matchups, Jax is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter to Jax. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana to counter Jax during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Jax. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Diana versus Jax build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Jax than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Diana had an average winrate of 48.6% battling Jax with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Jax as Diana, Diana players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Diana vs Jax fights, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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