Vi vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Vi
based on 2,666 Vi vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Janna
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Vi in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Vi versus Janna matchup statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Janna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Vi normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Janna. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vi and Janna
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Who is Better, Vi or Janna?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vi usually fairs equally well when facing off against Janna, with a 50.8% win rate. As a result, Vi makes an ok counter to Janna.
While Vi does have a higher win rate than Janna, when facing one another, Vi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vi into Janna.
Moreover, Vi has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vi vs Janna matchups, Vi is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vi is a decent counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Vi against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Vi to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Janna. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vi versus Janna build consist of Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Vi bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Janna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Janna with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Janna as Vi, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Vi vs Janna matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Janna as Vi are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.