Janna vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Janna
based on 3,375 Janna vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Janna vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Janna in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some significant Janna vs. Rakan counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rakan..
Janna typically has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Rakan
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Who is Better, Janna or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Rakan, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes an ok counter for Rakan.
While Janna does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Rakanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing 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 Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Rakan. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Janna versus Rakan build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Rakan than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 49.7% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Rakan as Janna, you should take 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 combinations players picked for Janna vs Rakan counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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