Janna vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Janna
based on 3,589 Janna vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Janna vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Janna in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Janna versus Katarina matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Katarina. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Katarina. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Katarina
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Who is Better, Janna or Katarina?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when facing off against Katarina, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter to Katarina.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Katarina, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Katarinaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Katarina 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 team members during team fights.
Janna is an above average counter for Katarina. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Katarina during both the early game 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 stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Katarina. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Janna versus Katarina build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Janna included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Katarina than with many other typical builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.3% battling Katarina with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Katarina 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Janna vs Katarina clashes, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
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