Janna vs Vayne
How to Beat Vayne as Janna
based on 5,077 Janna vs Vayne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Vayne Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Vayne Counter Build
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Core Janna Items
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Guide to Countering Vayne as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Vayne
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 Vayne
Deny Vayne the opportunity to pin you against walls.
Vayne is fragile - turn the pressure up on her and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Janna vs Vayne Counter Stats
How to Counter Vayne with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several valuable Janna versus Vayne matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vayne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Vayne. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Vayne. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Vayne
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Janna or Vayne?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Vayne, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter for Vayne.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Vayne, when facing one another, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Vayneas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vayne. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Vayne matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Janna is an above average counter for Vayne. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Vayne.
Other Champion Matchups Against Janna
Additional Information for Janna Players
How We Calculated Our Janna vs Vayne Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna in order to counter Vayne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average gets a lot less CS as Vayne. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Janna versus Vayne build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Vayne than with most other typical builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.3% battling Vayne with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Vayne as Janna, Janna players should take 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 Vayne clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% win rate overall.
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