Janna vs Vi
How to Beat Vi as Janna
based on 2,666 Janna vs Vi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Vi Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vi as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Vi
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 Vi
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
Janna vs Vi Counter Stats
How to Counter Vi with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature several vital Janna vs. Vi counter stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Vi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Vi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Vi
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Who is Better, Janna or Vi?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when taking on Vi, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Janna makes an ok counter for Vi.
While Janna does have a lower win rate than Vi, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Vias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter to Vi. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Vi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Vi 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 stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Vi. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Janna versus Vi build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Vi than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Vi with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Vi as Janna, Janna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Janna vs Vi counters, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% winrate overall.
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