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.
Purchasing Vision Wards can help you detect Evelynn's location in order to prepare for her ambushes.
A large share of Evelynn's threat is in her charm, 'Allure.' Protect allies marked with 'Allure' or, if you are marked, make sure allies are between you and where Evelynn may attack from.
If you suspect Evelynn is about to ambush one of your teammates, let them know by pinging the minimap and typing in chat.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Janna vs. Evelynn counter stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Evelynn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Evelynn. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Evelynn. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Evelynn, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter to Evelynn.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Evelynn, when facing one another, Janna also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Janna into Evelynnas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Evelynn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Evelynn matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Evelynn. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Evelynn.
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to counter Evelynn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Evelynn. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Janna versus Evelynn build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Evelynn than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 51.1% battling Evelynn with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Evelynn as Janna, Janna players should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Janna vs Evelynn counters, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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