Leona vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Leona
based on 5,651 Leona vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Diana
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Leona versus Diana matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Diana. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Diana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Diana
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Who is Better, Leona or Diana?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Diana, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a great counter for Diana.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Diana, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Diana.
Additionally, Leona has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Diana matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Diana. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Leona versus Diana build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Diana than with most other typical builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 53.4% battling Diana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Diana as Leona, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Leona vs Diana LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
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