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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stat comparisons provided here show some strategic Janna vs. LeBlanc counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than LeBlanc. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than LeBlanc. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight LeBlanc, with a 55.0% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a great counter to LeBlanc.
While Janna does have a much higher winrate compared to LeBlanc, when facing one another, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into LeBlancas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs LeBlanc matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Janna is a great counter for LeBlanc. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against LeBlanc.
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter LeBlanc during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average picks up a lot less CS compared to LeBlanc. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Janna versus LeBlanc build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against LeBlanc than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 55.0% when playing against LeBlanc with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing LeBlanc 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Janna vs LeBlanc face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.0% winrate overall.
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