Janna vs Samira
How to Beat Samira as Janna
based on 4,664 Janna vs Samira matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Samira Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Samira Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Samira as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Samira
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.
Janna vs Samira Counter Stats
How to Counter Samira with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some influential Janna vs. Samira matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between these two champions. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Samira’s ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Samira. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Samira. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Samira
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Who is Better, Janna or Samira?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Samira, with a 53.8% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a great counter to Samira.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Samira, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Samiraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Samira. 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 in League of Legends, in Janna vs Samira matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Janna is a great counter for Samira. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Samira.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Samira during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often gets a lot less CS relative to Samira. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Janna versus Samira build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Samira than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 53.8% when countering Samira with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Samira as Janna, you 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 sets players chose for Janna vs Samira face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.8% winrate overall.
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