Janna vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Janna
based on 1,496 Janna vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Nilah
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.
Janna vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several significant Janna vs. Nilah counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nilah. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes less damage than Nilah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Nilah
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Who is Better, Janna or Nilah?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Nilah, with a 52.2% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter for Nilah.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Nilah, when facing one another, Janna also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Nilahas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Nilah 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Janna is an above average counter to Nilah. Focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Nilah during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often gets a lot less CS as Nilah. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Janna versus Nilah build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs Nilah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 52.2% when playing against Nilah with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Nilah 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 combinations players picked for Janna vs Nilah clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nilah as Janna are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.