Janna vs Syndra
How to Beat Syndra as Janna
based on 2,329 Janna vs Syndra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Syndra Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Syndra as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Syndra
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 Syndra
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
Janna vs Syndra Counter Stats
How to Counter Syndra with Janna in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some critical Janna versus Syndra counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Syndra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Syndra. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Syndra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Syndra
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Who is Better, Janna or Syndra?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when facing off against Syndra, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter for Syndra.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Syndra, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Syndraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Syndra. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Syndra matchups, Janna is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Janna is a good counter to Syndra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Syndra.
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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 Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Syndra. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Janna versus Syndra build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Syndra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.9% battling Syndra with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Syndra as Janna, Janna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Janna vs Syndra clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Syndra as Janna are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.