Alistar vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Alistar
based on 1,958 Alistar vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Janna
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some strategic Alistar against Janna matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna..
Alistar typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Janna. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Janna
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Who is Better, Alistar or Janna?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when trying to fight Janna, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a bad counter to Janna.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Janna, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Alistar into Jannaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a very large 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is a garbage counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Janna during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Janna. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Alistar versus Janna build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Janna than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when playing against Janna with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Janna as Alistar, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Alistar vs Janna clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
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