Nilah vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Nilah
based on 1,496 Nilah vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Nilah in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Nilah versus Janna matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Nilah typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Janna. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nilah and Janna
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Who is Better, Nilah or Janna?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nilah usually loses when trying to fight Janna, with a 47.8% win rate. Therefore, Nilah makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Nilah does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a much greater difficulty level that makes them a more difficult champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Nilah into Jannaas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nilah has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nilah is a garbage counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nilah in order to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah typically gets much more CS compared to Janna. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nilah versus Janna build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and The Collector. When Nilah combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better when fighting Janna than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nilah had an average winrate of 47.8% battling Janna with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of beating Janna as Nilah, Nilah players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nilah vs Janna LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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