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.
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several influential Diana vs. Vi matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vi..
Diana often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Vi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Diana usually loses when taking on Vi, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Diana makes a bad counter for Vi.
While Diana does have a lower win rate than Vi, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Diana into Vi.
Moreover, Diana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Diana is a garbage counter for Vi. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Diana against Vi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Vi 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana usually accumulates more CS relative to Vi. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Diana versus Vi build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Diana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Vi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Diana had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Vi with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Vi as Diana, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Diana vs Vi counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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