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.
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Janna against Warwick counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Warwick. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Warwick. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Warwick, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter to Warwick.
While Janna does have a higher winrate compared to Warwick, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Warwickas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Warwick matchups, Janna is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Warwick. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Warwick.
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Warwick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often gets less CS relative to Warwick. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Janna versus Warwick build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Janna used at least these three items in her build, she did much better against Warwick than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 51.3% battling Warwick with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Warwick 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for Janna vs Warwick matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Warwick as Janna are shown for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.