Does Diana, Lunari's ability resolve before or after attack and defend abilities from the start of combat?
When combat opens with a new showdown, Diana's ability triggers first but resolves last, after all attack and defend abilities generated immediately afterward.
Start-of-showdown effects happen before units gain their attacker and defender designations, so Diana triggers before those designations trigger attack and defend abilities.383.4.e383.4.f466.2.a466.2.b466.2.c.3 These are consecutive combat-opening tasks with no priority between them, so all resulting abilities are pending on the combat chain before any is finalized or can resolve.334.1334.2466.2.d The newest chain items resolve first, so the attack and defend abilities resolve before Diana's ability.340.1
If combat opens during an existing showdown, the showdown does not begin again, so Diana's "when a showdown begins here" ability does not trigger.466.1466.2