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.
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
The stats provided here highlight some significant Janna vs. Gragas counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gragas. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Gragas. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gragas, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Janna makes an ok counter to Gragas.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Gragas, 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 Gragasas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Gragas matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Gragas. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Gragas.
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to counter Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Gragas. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Janna versus Gragas build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when facing Gragas than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 50.6% battling Gragas with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Gragas as Janna, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Janna vs Gragas counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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