Sylas vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Sylas
based on 3,221 Sylas vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Janna
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Sylas vs. Janna matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Sylas usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Janna
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Who is Better, Sylas or Janna?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when taking on Janna, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Sylas makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Sylas does have a much lower winrate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Sylas into Janna.
Additionally, Sylas 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Sylas is a bad counter for Janna. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Sylas against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sylas to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas usually racks up much more CS as Janna. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Sylas versus Janna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Sylas combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Janna than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Sylas boasted an average win rate of 45.8% battling Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Janna as Sylas, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Sylas vs Janna counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.8% win rate overall.
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