Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Diana against Ahri matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences between the pair. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ahri..
Diana normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives more damage than Ahri. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Diana usually wins when trying to fight Ahri, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a great counter for Ahri.
While Diana does have a higher winrate than Ahri, when facing one another, Diana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Diana into Ahri.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Ahri matchups, Diana is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Diana is a great counter for Ahri. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Ahri.
If you would like to truly master Diana in order to counter Ahri 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana often racks up less CS as Ahri. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Diana versus Ahri build consist of Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs Ahri than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Diana had an average win rate of 53.1% when countering Ahri with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Ahri as Diana, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Diana vs Ahri counterpicks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.1% win rate overall.
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