Maokai vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Maokai
based on 6,269 Maokai vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Diana
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Maokai in LoL
The stats provided here feature several important Maokai against Diana matchup statistics that may help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champions. Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Diana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Maokai usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Maokai and Diana
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Who is Better, Maokai or Diana?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Diana, with a 53.5% win rate. Therefore, Maokai makes a great counter to Diana.
While Maokai does have a higher win rate compared to Diana, when they face off with one another, Maokai also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Maokai into Diana.
Furthermore, Maokai also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Diana matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Maokai is a great counter for Diana. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Maokai against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to counter Diana during both the early game 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 displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai typically racks up less CS as Diana. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai versus Diana build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Diana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average winrate of 53.5% battling Diana with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Diana as Maokai, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Maokai vs Diana matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.5% win rate overall.
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