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.
Pop Blossom's warning visuals are invisible if Neeko is disguised.
Standing behind minions against Neeko is very dangerous as Tangle-Barbs become stronger.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some influential Janna against Neeko counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Neeko’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Neeko. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Neeko. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when playing against Neeko, with a 50.5% win rate. As a result, Janna makes an ok counter to Neeko.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Neeko, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Janna into Neekoas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Neeko. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Neeko matchups, Janna is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter to Neeko. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Janna against Neeko.
To truly master Janna in order to counter Neeko during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Neeko. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Janna versus Neeko build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Neeko than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when playing against Neeko with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Neeko as Janna, Janna players should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Neeko battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.5% winrate overall.
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