Calm down, breathe, and focus.
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Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some valuable Hwei vs. Diana counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Hwei’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Diana’s ratio of NaN, showing that Hwei may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Diana..
Hwei usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Diana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Hwei usually loses when taking on Diana, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Hwei makes a bad counter for Diana.
While Hwei does have a lower winrate compared to Diana, when on opposite teams, Hwei also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hwei into Dianaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Hwei also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hwei vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Hwei is a terribly counter to Diana. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Hwei against Diana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hwei to counter Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hwei often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Diana. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Hwei versus Diana build consist of Horizon Focus, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Diana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Hwei had an average win rate of 46.3% when playing against Diana with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Diana as Hwei, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Hwei vs Diana battles, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.3% win rate overall.
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