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.
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
The stats provided here show some valuable Diana versus Gnar matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gnar..
Diana often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Gnar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually wins when trying to fight Gnar, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Diana makes a good counter to Gnar.
While Diana does have a higher win rate compared to Gnar, when on opposite teams, Diana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Diana into Gnar.
Furthermore, Diana has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Gnar matchups, Diana is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Diana is a good counter to Gnar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Diana against Gnar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically accumulates less CS relative to Gnar. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Diana versus Gnar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Gnar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when playing against Gnar with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Gnar as Diana, Diana players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Diana vs Gnar counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% win rate overall.
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