Janna vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Janna
based on 1,476 Janna vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Janna vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Janna in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some strategic Janna against Gangplank matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gangplank. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gangplank. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Janna or Gangplank?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Gangplank, with a 52.5% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter for Gangplank.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Gangplankas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Gangplank matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Janna is an above average counter to Gangplank. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Gangplank.
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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 Gangplank during both the lane 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 suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average racks up a lot less CS as Gangplank. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Janna versus Gangplank build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Gangplank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.5% when countering Gangplank with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Gangplank as Janna, Janna players 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 rune combinations players used for Janna vs Gangplank matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% winrate overall.
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