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.
All of Shyvana's basic abilities hit multiple enemies in dragon form. It's important for opposing champions to not cluster while fighting her.
Shyvana's Fury Bar indicate her ultimate can be activated. Harassing her when she's low on Fury can be very effective.
A significant portion of Shyvana's power is generated through aggression, making her weak against opponents who are able to keep their distance.
The stats shown on this page feature several valuable Janna vs. Shyvana matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shyvana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Shyvana. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Shyvana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Shyvana, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter for Shyvana.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Shyvana, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Shyvanaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shyvana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Shyvana matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Shyvana. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Shyvana.
To truly master Janna in order to counter Shyvana during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually racks up less CS relative to Shyvana. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Janna versus Shyvana build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Shyvana than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 52.0% when countering Shyvana with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Shyvana 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Janna vs Shyvana counter picks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Shyvana as Janna are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.