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 on this page highlight several important Janna vs. Vex counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Vex’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Vex. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vex. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Vex, with a 52.4% win rate. Therefore, Janna makes a good counter for Vex.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Vex, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Vexas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Vex. This often 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 Vex 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 allies during teamfights.
Janna is an above average counter for Vex. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Vex.
To truly master Janna in order to counter Vex during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically gets a lot less CS as Vex. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Janna versus Vex build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Dream Maker. When Janna included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Vex than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 52.4% battling Vex with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Vex as Janna, Janna players should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Janna vs Vex battles, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% winrate overall.
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