Zyra vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Zyra
based on 6,497 Zyra vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Diana
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Zyra in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some influential Zyra versus Diana counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Diana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Zyra normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Diana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Diana
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Who is Better, Zyra or Diana?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when playing against Diana, with a 51.6% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a good counter to Diana.
While Zyra does have a higher win rate compared to Diana, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zyra into Dianaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zyra has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Diana matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zyra is a decent counter for Diana. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zyra against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zyra 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra on average picks up less CS relative to Diana. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zyra versus Diana build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Diana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Diana with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Diana as Zyra, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Zyra vs Diana clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% winrate overall.
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