Janna vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Janna
based on 2,727 Janna vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Janna vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Janna in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Janna against Malzahar counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Malzahar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Janna or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Malzahar, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Janna makes an ok counter to Malzahar.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Malzahar, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Malzaharas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malzahar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Malzahar matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Malzahar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna in order to counter Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically racks up a lot less CS as Malzahar. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Janna versus Malzahar build include Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 50.2% battling Malzahar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Malzahar as Janna, you should use 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 Malzahar matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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