Janna vs Vel'Koz
How to Beat Vel'Koz as Janna
based on 1,871 Janna vs Vel'Koz matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Vel'Koz Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Vel'Koz Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vel'Koz as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz
Vel'Koz has fairly low mobility and is vulnerable to ganks.
Vel'Koz is very dangerous if left alone in a fight. Try to focus him down early.
Life Form Disintegration Ray can be interrupted by stuns, silences and knockups.
Janna vs Vel'Koz Counter Stats
How to Counter Vel'Koz with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Janna versus Vel'Koz counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vel'Koz. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Vel'Koz. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Vel'Koz
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Who is Better, Janna or Vel'Koz?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Vel'Koz, with a 51.3% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter for Vel'Koz.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Vel'Koz, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Vel'Kozas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vel'Koz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Vel'Koz matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Vel'Koz. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Vel'Koz.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often picks up a lot less CS compared to Vel'Koz. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Janna versus Vel'Koz build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Vel'Koz than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 51.3% battling Vel'Koz with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Vel'Koz as Janna, Janna players should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Janna vs Vel'Koz face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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