Zoe vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Zoe
based on 1,207 Zoe vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Janna Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Janna as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Janna
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Zoe in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Zoe against Janna counter statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Janna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zoe usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Janna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Janna
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zoe or Janna?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Zoe makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Zoe does have a much lower winrate compared to Janna, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Janna.
Additionally, Zoe has only a small 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zoe 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 team fights.
Zoe is a trash counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Janna.
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Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Janna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zoe to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe on average gets much more CS relative to Janna. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Janna build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Janna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 45.7% when playing against Janna with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Janna as Zoe, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zoe vs Janna counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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