Gangplank vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Gangplank
based on 2,203 Gangplank vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gangplank vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Gangplank vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gangplank against Diana
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Advice to Win Against Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Gangplank vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Gangplank in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Gangplank against Diana counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Diana..
Gangplank often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Diana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gangplank and Diana
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Who is Better, Gangplank or Diana?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gangplank usually loses when taking on Diana, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Gangplank makes a poor counter for Diana.
While Gangplank does have a lower winrate than Diana, when facing one another, Gangplank also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gangplank into Dianaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gangplank has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gangplank vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gangplank is a somewhat poor counter to Diana. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gangplank against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to counter Diana 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank often gets more CS relative to Diana. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gangplank versus Diana build consist of Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Gangplank included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Diana than with most other common builds. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average win rate of 48.9% battling Diana with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Diana as Gangplank, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Gangplank vs Diana counter picks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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