Janna vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Janna
based on 1,438 Janna vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Janna vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several influential Janna vs. Xayah counter stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xayah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xayah. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Xayah. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Xayah
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Who is Better, Janna or Xayah?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Xayah, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a good counter to Xayah.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Xayah, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Janna into Xayahas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Xayah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Xayah 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 an above average counter to Xayah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Xayah. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Janna versus Xayah build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Xayah than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 52.1% battling Xayah with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing Xayah 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 players chose for Janna vs Xayah counters, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.1% winrate overall.
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