Shyvana vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Shyvana
based on 1,122 Shyvana vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Janna
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Shyvana in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several critical Shyvana versus Janna matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the two. Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Shyvana typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Janna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Janna
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Shyvana usually loses when taking on Janna, with a 48.0% win rate. Thus, Shyvana makes a poor counter for Janna.
While Shyvana does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Shyvana into Janna.
Furthermore, Shyvana has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a trash counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Shyvana in order to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana on average gets more CS relative to Janna. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Shyvana versus Janna build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Janna than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when countering Janna with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Janna as Shyvana, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Shyvana vs Janna face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.0% winrate overall.
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