Janna vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Janna
based on 5,352 Janna vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Janna vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Janna in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some influential Janna versus Brand counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Brand. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives less damage than Brand. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Brand
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Who is Better, Janna or Brand?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when playing against Brand, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes an ok counter to Brand.
While Janna does have a lower winrate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Brandas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter for Brand. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna in order to counter Brand during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often accumulates less CS compared to Brand. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Janna versus Brand build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Brand than with most other common item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 49.5% when countering Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Brand as Janna, Janna players should take the Hail of Blades, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Janna vs Brand counters, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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