Janna vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Janna
based on 3,596 Janna vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Janna vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Janna in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Janna against Bard counter stats that may help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Janna normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Bard
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Who is Better, Janna or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Janna does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Bardas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Janna versus Bard build include Ardent Censer, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 48.9% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Bard as Janna, Janna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Janna vs Bard LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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