K'Sante vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as K'Sante
based on 1,728 K'Sante vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Janna
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Advice to Win Against Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
K'Sante vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with K'Sante in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important K'Sante against Janna counter stats that may help us understand the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s ratio of NaN, indicating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
K'Sante often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their matchup does. Typically, they receives more damage than Janna. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Janna
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Janna?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 46.5% win rate. Thus, K'Sante makes a poor counter to Janna.
While K'Sante does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more complex champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking K'Sante into Jannaas their relative depth means you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, K'Sante has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
K'Sante is a garbage counter for Janna. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante most often gets much more CS compared to Janna. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Janna build include Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better vs Janna than with most other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Janna with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Janna as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for K'Sante vs Janna face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
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