Illaoi vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Illaoi
based on 1,559 Illaoi vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Janna
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Illaoi in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Illaoi vs. Janna matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Janna. This observation is largely a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Illaoi typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Janna. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Janna
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Janna?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Janna, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes an ok counter for Janna.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Illaoi into Janna.
Additionally, Illaoi also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This 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 Illaoi vs Janna matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter to Janna. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi most often picks up much more CS compared to Janna. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Illaoi versus Janna build include Sterak's Gage, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Illaoi included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Janna than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.5% when countering Janna with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Janna as Illaoi, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Presence of Mind, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Illaoi vs Janna matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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