Janna vs Zyra
How to Beat Zyra as Janna
based on 3,987 Janna vs Zyra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Zyra Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Zyra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zyra as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Zyra
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 Zyra
Moving closer to Zyra can be a smart move if she places plants too far away from herself.
Moving the fight to a different area will deprive Zyra of accumulated seeds.
Plants take fixed damage from attacks and effects, similar to wards. They also expire quickly on their own.
Seeds placed by Zyra's W are larger, a different color, and grant a small amount of vision to her team.
Zyra's seeds can be destroyed by stepping on them. If she tries to grow them as you do, dodge back at the last moment.
Janna vs Zyra Counter Stats
How to Counter Zyra with Janna in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Janna versus Zyra matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zyra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Zyra. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Zyra. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but 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 Zyra
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Who is Better, Janna or Zyra?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually loses when playing against Zyra, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a bad counter for Zyra.
While Janna does have a lower win rate than Zyra, when they face off with one another, Janna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Zyraas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zyra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Zyra matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter to Zyra. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Zyra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Zyra during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often picks up less CS as Zyra. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Janna versus Zyra build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Zyra than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 48.9% when playing against Zyra with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Zyra as Janna, Janna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Zyra fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Zyra as Janna are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.