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.
The stats shown on this page underscore some influential Diana vs. Viego matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between this set of champs. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Viego’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Viego..
Diana normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Viego. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Diana usually loses when playing against Viego, with a 47.2% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a poor counter for Viego.
While Diana does have a lower win rate than Viego, when on opposite teams, Diana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Diana into Viego.
Moreover, Diana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viego. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Diana vs Viego matchups, Viego is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Diana is a terribly counter to Viego. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Diana against Viego.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana in order to counter Viego during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana typically picks up more CS as Viego. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Diana versus Viego build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Diana included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Viego than with many other common item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Viego with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Viego as Diana, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Diana vs Viego fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Viego as Diana are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.