Bard vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Bard
based on 3,596 Bard vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Janna
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Bard vs. Janna matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna..
Bard often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Janna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Janna
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Who is Better, Bard or Janna?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Janna, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter for Janna.
While Bard does have a higher win rate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Bard into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Janna matchups, Bard is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter to Janna. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Janna. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to have in your Bard versus Janna build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Janna than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Janna with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Janna as Bard, Bard players should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Bard vs Janna counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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