Malphite vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Malphite
based on 3,802 Malphite vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Malphite vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Malphite vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Malphite
Tips for Playing as Malphite against Janna
Despite his abilities scaling on Armor, some games require Malphite to get Magic Resist. When those games occur, try getting Aegis of the Legion, Mercury's Treads, and Guardian Angel.
Armor naturally reduces the rate that attacks go through Granite Shield, so Brutal Strikes will strengthen the shield against physical damage.
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.
Malphite vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Malphite in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some critical Malphite vs. Janna counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between the two. As an example, Malphite’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Malphite may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Malphite typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Janna. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Malphite and Janna
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Who is Better, Malphite or Janna?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Malphite usually fairs equally well when playing against Janna, with a 49.5% win rate. Therefore, Malphite makes an ok counter for Janna.
While Malphite does have a lower win rate than Janna, when facing one another, Malphite also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Malphite into Janna.
Additionally, Malphite also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Malphite vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Malphite is a somewhat poor counter for Janna. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Malphite against Janna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Malphite
Additional Information for Malphite Players
How We Calculated Our Malphite vs Janna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Malphite to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Malphite most often racks up much more CS as Janna. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Malphite versus Janna build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Malphite used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Janna than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Malphite boasted an average winrate of 49.5% battling Janna with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Janna as Malphite, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Malphite vs Janna LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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