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.
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Janna vs. Ryze counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ryze. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Ryze. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ryze, with a 49.7% win rate. Thus, Janna makes an ok counter to Ryze.
While Janna does have a lower win rate compared to Ryze, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Ryzeas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Ryze matchups, Ryze is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter to Ryze. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Janna against Ryze.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Ryze during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often picks up a lot less CS as Ryze. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Janna versus Ryze build include Dream Maker, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Ryze than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 49.7% when playing against Ryze with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Ryze as Janna, Janna players 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 Ryze matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.7% win rate overall.
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