Janna vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Janna
based on 3,662 Janna vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Janna vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Janna in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Janna vs. Leona counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences between these two champs. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Leona’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Leona..
Janna typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Leona. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Leona
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Who is Better, Janna or Leona?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Leona, with a 50.1% win rate. As a result, Janna makes an ok counter to Leona.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Leona, when facing one another, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Janna into Leonaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Leona matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Leona.
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How We Calculated Our Janna vs Leona Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Leona. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Janna versus Leona build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Janna included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Leona than with many other typical builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing against Leona with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Leona as Janna, Janna players should use 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 combinations we have analyed for Janna vs Leona counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.1% winrate overall.
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