Janna vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Janna
based on 4,135 Janna vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Janna vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several significant Janna against Thresh counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Thresh..
Janna normally has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Thresh. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Thresh
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Who is Better, Janna or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when facing off against Thresh, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter for Thresh.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Thresh, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Threshas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Thresh matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Janna is a good counter to Thresh. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Thresh.
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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 Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Thresh. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Janna versus Thresh build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Thresh than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 52.3% when countering Thresh with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Thresh as Janna, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Janna vs Thresh counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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