Ahri vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Ahri
based on 5,132 Ahri vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Diana
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Ahri against Diana matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Diana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Diana..
Ahri usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Diana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ahri and Diana
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Who is Better, Ahri or Diana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Diana, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a bad counter to Diana.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate than Diana, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Diana.
Additionally, Ahri has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ahri is a bad counter to Diana. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often gets more CS as Diana. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Diana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Diana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Diana with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Diana as Ahri, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Ahri vs Diana counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
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