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.
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Janna against Pantheon matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Pantheon. 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. On average, she receives less damage than Pantheon. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Pantheon, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a great counter to Pantheon.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Pantheon, when facing one another, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Pantheonas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Pantheon matchups, Janna is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Janna is a great counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Janna against Pantheon.
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually gets a lot less CS as Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Janna versus Pantheon build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better versus Pantheon than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 53.1% battling Pantheon with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Pantheon as Janna, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Janna vs Pantheon clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.1% winrate overall.
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