Janna vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Janna
based on 2,315 Janna vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Core Janna Items
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Aphelios
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Janna vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Janna in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some important Janna vs. Aphelios matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Aphelios. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Janna typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Aphelios. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Janna or Aphelios?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Aphelios, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter to Aphelios.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Aphelios, when facing one another, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Apheliosas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Aphelios matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Aphelios.
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How We Calculated Our Janna vs Aphelios Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average picks up a lot less CS as Aphelios. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Janna versus Aphelios build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Aphelios than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Aphelios with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Aphelios as Janna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Janna vs Aphelios clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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