Diana vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Diana
based on 5,842 Diana vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Diana vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Diana in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Diana against Katarina matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Katarina..
Diana usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Katarina
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Who is Better, Diana or Katarina?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually wins when facing off against Katarina, with a 53.2% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a great counter for Katarina.
While Diana does have a higher winrate compared to Katarina, when facing one another, Diana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Diana into Katarina.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Diana vs Katarina matchups, Diana is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Diana is a great counter for Katarina. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Katarina 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Katarina. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require 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 have in your Diana versus Katarina build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Katarina than with most other common item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 53.2% when countering Katarina with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Katarina as Diana, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Diana vs Katarina battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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