Janna vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Janna
based on 3,221 Janna vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Janna vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Janna in LoL
The stats provided here feature several vital Janna vs. Sylas counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sylas’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Sylas. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Sylas. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Sylas
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Who is Better, Janna or Sylas?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Sylas, with a 54.2% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a great counter for Sylas.
While Janna does have a much higher win rate than Sylas, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Sylasas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sylas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Sylas matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably 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 great counter to Sylas. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically accumulates a lot less CS as Sylas. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Janna versus Sylas build include Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Janna combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Sylas than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 54.2% when playing against Sylas with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating Sylas 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 rune combinations players used for Janna vs Sylas counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.2% win rate overall.
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