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 highlight several strategic Volibear vs. Diana matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Diana..
Volibear often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Diana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Volibear usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Diana, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Volibear makes an ok counter for Diana.
While Volibear does have a higher winrate compared to Diana, when facing one another, Volibear also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Volibear into Diana.
Moreover, Volibear also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Diana matchups, Volibear is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Volibear is a decent counter for Diana. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Volibear against Diana.
To truly master Volibear in order to counter Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Diana. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Volibear versus Diana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Diana than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Volibear had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Diana as Volibear, Volibear players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Volibear vs Diana counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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