Ziggs vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Ziggs
based on 1,221 Ziggs vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ziggs vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Ziggs vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Ziggs
Tips for Playing as Ziggs against Janna
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Ziggs in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Ziggs against Janna matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between these two champs. As an example, Ziggs’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ziggs may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Ziggs normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Janna. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ziggs and Janna
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Who is Better, Ziggs or Janna?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ziggs usually loses when taking on Janna, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Ziggs makes a poor counter for Janna.
While Ziggs does have a lower winrate than Janna, when they face off with one another, Ziggs also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ziggs into Janna.
Moreover, Ziggs has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ziggs 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 teamfights.
Ziggs is a bad 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 Ziggs against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ziggs in order to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ziggs on average racks up much more CS compared to Janna. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Ziggs versus Janna build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Janna than with most other common builds. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 47.7% battling Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Janna as Ziggs, Ziggs players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Ziggs vs Janna matchups, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.7% winrate overall.
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