Diana vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Diana
based on 4,384 Diana vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Taliyah
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.
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Advice to Win Against Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Diana vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Diana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Diana versus Taliyah counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Diana typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Diana or Taliyah?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Diana makes an ok counter for Taliyah.
While Diana does have a lower win rate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Diana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Diana into Taliyah.
Furthermore, Diana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Diana vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter to Taliyah. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Diana against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Diana to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically accumulates less CS relative to Taliyah. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Diana versus Taliyah build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Nashor's Tooth. When Diana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Taliyah than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Taliyah with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Taliyah as Diana, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Diana vs Taliyah counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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