Janna vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Janna
based on 1,287 Janna vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Janna vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Janna vs. Zilean matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between these two champions. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zilean..
Janna often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Zilean
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Who is Better, Janna or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zilean, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Janna makes an ok counter to Zilean.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Zilean, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Zileanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Zilean matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Zilean. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for 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 most often picks up less CS relative to Zilean. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Janna versus Zilean build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Zilean than with most other common builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 50.7% battling Zilean with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Zilean as Janna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Janna vs Zilean fights, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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