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.
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some influential Diana against Orianna matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Orianna..
Diana usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Orianna. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Diana usually wins when trying to fight Orianna, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a good counter for Orianna.
While Diana does have a higher win rate than Orianna, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Diana into Orianna.
Moreover, Diana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. 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 in League of Legends, in Diana vs Orianna matchups, Diana is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Diana is a good counter to Orianna. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Diana against Orianna.
To learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Orianna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana most often accumulates less CS as Orianna. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Diana versus Orianna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Orianna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Orianna with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Orianna 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Diana vs Orianna fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.9% winrate overall.
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