Janna vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Janna
based on 8,918 Janna vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Janna vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some influential Janna vs. Caitlyn matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Caitlyn’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Caitlyn. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Caitlyn. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Janna or Caitlyn?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when taking on Caitlyn, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Janna makes an ok counter for Caitlyn.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Caitlyn, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Caitlynas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Caitlyn matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Caitlyn. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Caitlyn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically racks up a lot less CS as Caitlyn. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Janna versus Caitlyn build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Caitlyn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when playing against Caitlyn with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Caitlyn as Janna, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Janna vs Caitlyn battles, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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