Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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.
The stats provided here feature some strategic Renekton vs. Janna counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Janna. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Renekton normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Renekton usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 44.3% win rate. Therefore, Renekton makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Renekton does have a much lower win rate compared to Janna, when they face off with one another, Renekton also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Renekton into Janna.
Furthermore, Renekton also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Renekton vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Renekton is a bad counter for Janna. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Renekton against Janna.
To learn all of the intricacies of Renekton to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton on average accumulates much more CS as Janna. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Renekton versus Janna build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Janna than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Renekton boasted an average winrate of 44.3% battling Janna with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Janna as Renekton, Renekton players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Renekton vs Janna counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.3% win rate overall.
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