Elise vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Elise
based on 793 Elise vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Janna
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Elise vs. Janna counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Elise often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives more damage than Janna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Elise and Janna
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Who is Better, Elise or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Elise usually loses when taking on Janna, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Elise does have a lower winrate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Elise into Jannaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Elise also has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Elise is a trash counter to Janna. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Janna. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Elise versus Janna build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Janna than with most other typical builds. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 47.5% battling Janna with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Janna as Elise, Elise players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Elise vs Janna matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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