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.
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Diana vs. Syndra counter stats that can help you grasp the differences between the two. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Syndra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Syndra..
Diana typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Syndra. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually wins when playing against Syndra, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Diana makes a good counter to Syndra.
While Diana does have a higher win rate compared to Syndra, when on opposite teams, Diana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Diana into Syndra.
Furthermore, Diana has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Syndra. 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 Syndra 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 team members during team fights.
Diana is a good counter for Syndra. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Syndra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana to counter Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana often accumulates less CS as Syndra. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Diana versus Syndra build consist of Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Diana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Syndra than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 52.1% battling Syndra with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Syndra as Diana, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Diana vs Syndra face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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