Katarina vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Katarina
based on 5,842 Katarina vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Diana
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Diana
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.
Katarina vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Katarina against Diana matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Diana..
Katarina usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Diana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Diana
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Who is Better, Katarina or Diana?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Diana, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter for Diana.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate than Diana, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Dianaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Katarina is a trash counter for Diana. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Diana 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 mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Diana. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly 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 do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Diana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Diana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 46.8% battling Diana with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Diana as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Katarina vs Diana counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Diana as Katarina are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.