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.
The stats shown here feature several strategic Janna against Rell counter statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rell’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Rell..
Janna typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Rell. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Rell, with a 54.7% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a great counter for Rell.
While Janna does have a much higher win rate than Rell, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Rellas 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 great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rell. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Rell 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 late stage team fights.
Janna is a great counter to Rell. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Rell.
To truly master Janna in order to counter Rell 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 mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often gets a similar amount of CS as Rell. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Janna versus Rell build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Rell than with most other common builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 54.7% when playing against Rell with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Rell as Janna, you should equip 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 sets that we analyzed for Janna vs Rell counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.7% winrate overall.
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