Katarina vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Katarina
based on 3,589 Katarina vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Janna
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Katarina vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some significant Katarina versus Janna counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Janna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Janna
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Who is Better, Katarina or Janna?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 47.7% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Katarina into Jannaas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a bad counter for Janna. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina typically racks up much more CS relative to Janna. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Janna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Janna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Janna with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Janna as Katarina, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Relentless Hunter, and Sudden Impact runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Katarina vs Janna clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
If you want to get Katarina x Janna tips and counter stats for a a particular skill level, please select one from the selection menu above. By default, the statistics and build suggestions given are computed using all games completed with both champs.