Janna vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Janna
based on 2,561 Janna vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Ahri Counter Build
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Starter Items
Early Items
Core Janna Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Ahri as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Ahri
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Janna vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Janna in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Janna against Ahri counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ahri. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Ahri
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Janna or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Ahri, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter to Ahri.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Ahri, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Ahrias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Ahri matchups, Janna is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Ahri. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Ahri.
Other Champion Matchups Against Janna
Additional Information for Janna Players
How We Calculated Our Janna vs Ahri Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Ahri during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often gets a lot less CS as Ahri. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Janna versus Ahri build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Ahri than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 51.0% when countering Ahri with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Ahri as Janna, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Janna vs Ahri fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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