Brand vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Brand
based on 5,352 Brand vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Janna
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Brand in LoL
The stats shown here feature several important Brand against Janna counter stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Brand typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Janna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Janna
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Who is Better, Brand or Janna?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Janna, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Brand makes an ok counter for Janna.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Brand into Janna.
Moreover, Brand also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Janna matchups, Brand is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Brand is a decent counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Janna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Brand
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How We Calculated Our Brand vs Janna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand in order to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average racks up more CS as Janna. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Brand versus Janna build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Zaz'Zak's Realmspike. When Brand used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Janna than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average win rate of 50.5% when countering Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Janna as Brand, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Brand vs Janna fights, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% win rate overall.
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