Janna vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Janna
based on 3,950 Janna vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Janna vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Janna in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several strategic Janna against Diana counter stats that can help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Diana. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Diana. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Diana
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Who is Better, Janna or Diana?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Diana, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter to Diana.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Diana, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Dianaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Diana matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Diana. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna to counter Diana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Diana. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Janna versus Diana build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Diana than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 51.7% battling Diana with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Diana as Janna, Janna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Janna vs Diana fights, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Diana as Janna are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.