Janna vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Janna
based on 947 Janna vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Janna vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Janna in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several vital Janna vs. Kalista matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Kalista. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Kalista
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Who is Better, Janna or Kalista?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Kalistaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach 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 Kalista. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Kalista matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Janna is a good counter for Kalista. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna in order to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often picks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Janna versus Kalista build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Kalista than with most other common item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.2% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kalista as Janna, Janna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Janna vs Kalista counters, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
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