Janna vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Janna
based on 1,185 Janna vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Sivir
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.
Advice to Win Against Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Janna vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several critical Janna vs. Sivir counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sivir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Sivir. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Sivir. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Sivir
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Who is Better, Janna or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Sivir, with a 53.8% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a great counter to Sivir.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Sivir, when facing one another, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Siviras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Sivir 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 Sivir. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often gets a lot less CS as Sivir. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Janna versus Sivir build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Dream Maker. When Janna used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Sivir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 53.8% battling Sivir with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Sivir as Janna, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Janna vs Sivir face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.8% win rate overall.
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