Diana vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Diana
based on 2,713 Diana vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Alistar
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.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Diana vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Diana in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some critical Diana vs. Alistar counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Diana often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Alistar
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Who is Better, Diana or Alistar?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when playing against Alistar, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Diana does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Diana into Alistar.
Additionally, Diana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Diana against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Diana in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana on average accumulates more CS as Alistar. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Diana versus Alistar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Diana had an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Alistar as Diana, you should use 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 builds players used for Diana vs Alistar matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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