Janna vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Janna
based on 1,776 Janna vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Janna vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Janna vs. Azir counter stats that may help you grasp the differences between this pair of champions. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Azir’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Azir. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Azir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Azir
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Who is Better, Janna or Azir?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when taking on Azir, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Janna makes an ok counter for Azir.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Azir, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Aziras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Azir matchups, Janna is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Azir. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to counter Azir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average picks up a lot less CS as Azir. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically 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 prioritize in your Janna versus Azir build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Azir than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 50.6% when countering Azir with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Azir as Janna, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Janna vs Azir face-offs, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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