Janna vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Janna
based on 2,532 Janna vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Janna vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Janna in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some vital Janna vs. Irelia counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Irelia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Irelia
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Who is Better, Janna or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Irelia, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter to Irelia.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Ireliaas her relative depth means 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 Irelia. This often 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 Irelia matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Janna against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to counter Irelia 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 displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually gets a lot less CS relative to Irelia. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Janna versus Irelia build consist of Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Irelia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Irelia with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Irelia 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 builds players picked for Janna vs Irelia fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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