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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Diana against Lissandra matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lissandra..
Diana typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Lissandra, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes an ok counter for Lissandra.
While Diana does have a lower win rate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Diana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Diana into Lissandra.
Furthermore, Diana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Diana vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter to Lissandra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Lissandra.
If you would like to truly master Diana to counter Lissandra 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana often picks up less CS relative to Lissandra. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Diana versus Lissandra build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Lissandra than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 49.0% battling Lissandra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Lissandra as Diana, you 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Diana vs Lissandra matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
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