Garen vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Garen
based on 3,103 Garen vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Janna
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some important Garen vs. Janna counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Janna. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Garen often has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Janna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Garen and Janna
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Who is Better, Garen or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when trying to fight Janna, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Garen makes a poor counter to Janna.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Janna, when facing one another, Garen also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Garen into Janna.
Furthermore, Garen 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Garen vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Garen is a trash counter for Janna. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically racks up much more CS relative to Janna. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Garen versus Janna build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Garen combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Janna than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Janna as Garen, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Garen vs Janna counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.8% win rate overall.
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