Janna vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Janna
based on 2,716 Janna vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Janna vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some strategic Janna against Kayle counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Kayle. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Kayle
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Who is Better, Janna or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually loses when taking on Kayle, with a 46.7% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Janna does have a lower win rate compared to Kayle, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Janna into Kayleas her relative depth means that 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 Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Janna is a trash counter to Kayle. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Kayle during both the lane 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 displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't need 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 need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Janna versus Kayle build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Kayle than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when countering Kayle with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kayle 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Kayle fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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