Alistar vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Alistar
based on 2,713 Alistar vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Diana
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Alistar versus Diana counter stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Diana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Diana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Diana
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Who is Better, Alistar or Diana?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Diana, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes an ok counter to Diana.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate compared to Diana, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Dianaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Diana matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up less CS relative to Diana. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Alistar versus Diana build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Diana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing against Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Diana as Alistar, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Alistar vs Diana face-offs, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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