Illaoi vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Illaoi
based on 1,155 Illaoi vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Janna
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
Vessel
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Advice to Win Against Janna
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.
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Illaoi vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Illaoi vs. Janna counter stats that may help us understand the differences between these two champs. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Illaoi typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Janna. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Janna
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Janna?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when facing off against Janna, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a good counter to Janna.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate than Janna, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Janna.
Additionally, Illaoi has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Janna matchups, Illaoi 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.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Janna. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi typically accumulates much more CS as Janna. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Janna build consist of Divine Sunderer, Hullbreaker, and Death's Dance. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Janna than with most other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 51.0% battling Janna with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Janna as Illaoi, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Illaoi vs Janna counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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