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.
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Diana vs. Cassiopeia counter stats that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Cassiopeia..
Diana usually has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Cassiopeia, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Diana makes an ok counter for Cassiopeia.
While Diana does have a lower winrate than Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Diana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Diana into Cassiopeia.
Additionally, Diana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Diana vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter for Cassiopeia. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Diana against Cassiopeia.
To truly master Diana in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana usually racks up less CS compared to Cassiopeia. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Diana versus Cassiopeia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Cassiopeia than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Cassiopeia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Cassiopeia as Diana, Diana players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Diana vs Cassiopeia battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.3% win rate overall.
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