Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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 shown here underscore several vital Ziggs vs. Diana matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Diana..
Ziggs normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Diana. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when playing against Diana, with a 48.0% win rate. Therefore, Ziggs makes a bad counter for Diana.
While Ziggs does have a lower winrate compared to Diana, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ziggs into Diana.
Additionally, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Ziggs is a trash counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ziggs against Diana.
To truly master Ziggs 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs typically accumulates more CS relative to Diana. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ziggs versus Diana build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Diana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ziggs boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when playing against Diana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Diana as Ziggs, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Ziggs vs Diana matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% winrate overall.
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