Janna vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Janna
based on 8,390 Janna vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Janna vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some valuable Janna vs. Lux counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lux. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Lux. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Lux
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Who is Better, Janna or Lux?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when playing against Lux, with a 50.5% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes an ok counter for Lux.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Lux, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Luxas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Lux 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 Lux. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often gets a lot less CS compared to Lux. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Janna versus Lux build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Lux than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 50.5% when playing against Lux with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Lux as Janna, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Janna vs Lux counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.5% win rate overall.
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