Janna vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Janna
based on 3,250 Janna vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Nami
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 Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Janna vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some critical Janna against Nami matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nami..
Janna often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nami. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Nami
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Who is Better, Janna or Nami?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Nami, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter to Nami.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Nami, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Namias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Nami matchups, Janna is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Nami. 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 Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to counter Nami during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nami. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Janna versus Nami build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Nami than with many other common builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 51.3% when playing against Nami with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Nami as Janna, you should equip 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 Nami LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nami as Janna are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.