Kayn vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Kayn
based on 4,372 Kayn vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayn vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Janna
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Kayn in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Kayn versus Janna counter statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kayn normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayn and Janna
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Who is Better, Kayn or Janna?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kayn usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Kayn makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Kayn does have a lower winrate compared to Janna, when they face off with one another, Kayn also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kayn into Jannaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayn also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayn 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.
Kayn is a terribly counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayn against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to counter Janna 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 tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Janna. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kayn versus Janna build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Kayn used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Janna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Janna with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Janna as Kayn, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Kayn vs Janna counters, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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