Illaoi vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Illaoi
based on 2,916 Illaoi vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Diana
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Illaoi versus Diana counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Diana..
Illaoi normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Diana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Diana
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Diana?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when playing against Diana, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Diana.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Diana, when facing one another, Illaoi also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Diana.
Furthermore, Illaoi 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi most often gets more CS compared to Diana. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically 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 use in your Illaoi versus Diana build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Diana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Diana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Diana as Illaoi, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Illaoi vs Diana LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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