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 stats shown on this page feature several valuable Vex against Diana matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Diana..
Vex typically has a similar longest killing spree as their matchup does. Commonly, they receives less damage than Diana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Vex usually fairs equally well when playing against Diana, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Vex makes an ok counter to Diana.
While Vex does have a higher win rate compared to Diana, when on opposite teams, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Vex into Diana.
Furthermore, Vex also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vex vs Diana matchups, Vex is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vex is a decent counter to Diana. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Diana.
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex in order to counter Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex usually accumulates more CS compared to Diana. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Vex versus Diana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Luden's Companion. When Vex bought at least these three items in their build, they did much better countering Diana than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vex boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Diana with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Diana as Vex, Vex players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Vex vs Diana matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% win rate overall.
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