Vel'Koz vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Vel'Koz
based on 1,871 Vel'Koz vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vel'Koz vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Vel'Koz vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Vel'Koz against Janna
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
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.
Vel'Koz vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Vel'Koz in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some strategic Vel'Koz against Janna counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Vel'Koz’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vel'Koz may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Vel'Koz typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Janna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vel'Koz and Janna
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Who is Better, Vel'Koz or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vel'Koz usually loses when taking on Janna, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Vel'Koz makes a poor counter for Janna.
While Vel'Koz does have a lower win rate than Janna, when on opposite teams, Vel'Koz also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vel'Koz into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vel'Koz also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vel'Koz 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 allies during teamfights.
Vel'Koz is a somewhat poor counter to Janna. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vel'Koz against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vel'Koz in order to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vel'Koz often gets much more CS relative to Janna. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Vel'Koz versus Janna build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Vel'Koz used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Janna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vel'Koz boasted an average winrate of 48.7% battling Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Janna as Vel'Koz, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Vel'Koz vs Janna LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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