Soraka vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Soraka
based on 3,641 Soraka vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Diana
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Soraka in LoL
The stats provided here feature some important Soraka against Diana matchup stats that may help you realize the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Diana. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Soraka often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Diana. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Soraka and Diana
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Who is Better, Soraka or Diana?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when taking on Diana, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Soraka makes an ok counter for Diana.
While Soraka does have a lower winrate than Diana, when they face off with one another, Soraka also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Diana.
Additionally, Soraka has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Soraka is a somewhat poor counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Soraka against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Soraka in order to counter Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka on average picks up a lot less CS as Diana. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Soraka versus Diana build include Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Diana than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 49.1% battling Diana with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Diana as Soraka, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Soraka vs Diana face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
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