Janna vs Xin Zhao
How to Beat Xin Zhao as Janna
based on 3,296 Janna vs Xin Zhao matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Xin Zhao Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xin Zhao as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao
Xin Zhao relies heavily on his Three Talon Strikes for damage and cooldown resets, so preventing him from finishing his combo will have a dramatic effect.
Xin Zhao is a powerful initiator with both his charge and ultimate dealing damage to all units around him. Try having your team stay spread out until he's used his ultimate.
Janna vs Xin Zhao Counter Stats
How to Counter Xin Zhao with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Janna vs. Xin Zhao counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xin Zhao’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xin Zhao. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Xin Zhao. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Xin Zhao
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Who is Better, Janna or Xin Zhao?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Xin Zhao, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter for Xin Zhao.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Xin Zhao, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Janna into Xin Zhaoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xin Zhao. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Xin Zhao matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Xin Zhao. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Janna against Xin Zhao.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often racks up less CS as Xin Zhao. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Janna versus Xin Zhao build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Xin Zhao than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 51.2% battling Xin Zhao with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Xin Zhao 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Janna vs Xin Zhao battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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