Janna vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Janna
based on 3,103 Janna vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Janna vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Janna in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Janna against Garen matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Garen. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Garen
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Who is Better, Janna or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter to Garen.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Garenas 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 great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Garen matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Janna is a good counter for Garen. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically accumulates a lot less CS as Garen. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Janna versus Garen build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Garen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Garen as Janna, Janna players should take 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 sets we have analyed for Janna vs Garen counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
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