Aphelios vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Aphelios
based on 2,315 Aphelios vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Janna
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Advice to Win Against Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Aphelios vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Aphelios versus Janna counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Aphelios typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Janna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Aphelios and Janna
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Janna?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 48.9% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes a poor counter to Janna.
While Aphelios does have a lower win rate than Janna, when on opposite teams, Aphelios also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Aphelios into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Aphelios is a somewhat poor counter to Janna. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aphelios against Janna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Aphelios
Additional Information for Aphelios Players
How We Calculated Our Aphelios vs Janna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios often racks up much more CS relative to Janna. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Aphelios versus Janna build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Bloodthirster. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Janna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 48.9% when countering Janna with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Janna as Aphelios, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Aphelios vs Janna fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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