Janna vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Janna
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Janna vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Janna vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some strategic Janna against Azir counter statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Azir’s ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Azir. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Azir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Azir
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Who is Better, Janna or Azir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when facing off against Azir, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter to Azir.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Azir, when facing one another, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Aziras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Azir matchups, Janna is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Janna is an above average counter to Azir. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Azir.
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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 Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average gets a lot less CS compared to Azir. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Janna versus Azir build include Moonstone Renewer, Chemtech Putrifier, and Shard of True Ice. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Azir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when countering Azir with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Azir as Janna, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Janna vs Azir clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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