Janna vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Janna
based on 2,017 Janna vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Janna vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some influential Janna against Gwen matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gwen. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Gwen
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Who is Better, Janna or Gwen?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Gwen, with a 52.3% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter to Gwen.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Gwen, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Gwenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Gwen 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 team members during teamfights.
Janna is a good counter for Gwen. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Janna against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Gwen during both the laning 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 stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often gets a lot less CS compared to Gwen. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Janna versus Gwen build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus Gwen than with many other common builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 52.3% when playing against Gwen with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Gwen as Janna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Janna vs Gwen fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% winrate overall.
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