Thresh vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Thresh
based on 6,091 Thresh vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Diana
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some valuable Thresh vs. Diana counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Diana. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Thresh normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Diana
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Who is Better, Thresh or Diana?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Thresh usually loses when trying to fight Diana, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes a poor counter for Diana.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate than Diana, when facing one another, Thresh also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Thresh into Dianaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a great deal 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 in League of Legends, in Thresh 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.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically gets less CS relative to Diana. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Diana build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Diana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Diana with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Diana as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Thresh vs Diana fights, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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