Gwen vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Gwen
based on 3,281 Gwen vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Diana
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Gwen in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some influential Gwen vs. Diana counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Diana..
Gwen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Diana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gwen and Diana
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Who is Better, Gwen or Diana?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gwen usually loses when facing off against Diana, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Gwen makes a poor counter for Diana.
While Gwen does have a much lower win rate compared to Diana, when on opposite teams, Gwen also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Gwen into Diana.
Additionally, Gwen also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gwen vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gwen is a bad counter for Diana. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gwen against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gwen in order to counter Diana during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen on average picks up more CS as Diana. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gwen versus Diana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Cosmic Drive. When Gwen used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Diana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average winrate of 45.8% when playing against Diana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Diana as Gwen, Gwen players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Gwen vs Diana LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.8% win rate overall.
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