Diana vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Diana
based on 1,750 Diana vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Diana vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Diana in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several strategic Diana against Zilean matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Zilean. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Diana typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes more damage than Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Zilean
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Who is Better, Diana or Zilean?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zilean, with a 49.5% win rate. As a result, Diana makes an ok counter for Zilean.
While Diana does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Diana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Diana into Zilean.
Furthermore, Diana has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Diana vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a similar 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 Zilean. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Diana against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Diana to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana on average picks up more CS as Zilean. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Diana versus Zilean build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Zilean than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Zilean with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Zilean as Diana, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Diana vs Zilean LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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