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.
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
The stats shown here underscore several important Janna against Blitzcrank matchup statistics that can help you realize the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Blitzcrank..
Janna normally has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Blitzcrank. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Blitzcrank, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Janna makes an ok counter for Blitzcrank.
While Janna does have a lower winrate than Blitzcrank, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Blitzcrankas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Blitzcrank matchups, Blitzcrank is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Blitzcrank.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Blitzcrank. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Janna versus Blitzcrank build consist of Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Blitzcrank than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 49.2% when playing against Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Blitzcrank as Janna, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Blitzcrank clashes, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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