Ezreal vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Ezreal
based on 5,541 Ezreal vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Janna
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Ezreal in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Ezreal vs. Janna counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Ezreal often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Janna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ezreal and Janna
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Janna?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 45.2% win rate. Thus, Ezreal makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Ezreal does have a much lower win rate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Ezreal also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ezreal into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ezreal also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ezreal is a garbage counter for Janna. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ezreal against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal often gets much more CS as Janna. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Ezreal versus Janna build consist of Muramana, Maw of Malmortius, and Essence Reaver. When Ezreal bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Janna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average winrate of 45.2% when countering Janna with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Janna as Ezreal, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Ezreal vs Janna clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.2% winrate overall.
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