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.
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
The stats provided here highlight some critical Diana vs. Amumu counter statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Amumu. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Diana often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Amumu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Amumu, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Diana does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Diana into Amumu.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Diana vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter to Amumu. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Amumu.
If you would like to truly master Diana in order to counter Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana on average accumulates much more CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Diana versus Amumu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Diana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Amumu than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Amumu with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Amumu as Diana, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Diana vs Amumu face-offs, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
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