Ryze vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Ryze
based on 825 Ryze vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Janna
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Ryze in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several critical Ryze versus Janna matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Ryze often has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Janna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Janna
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Who is Better, Ryze or Janna?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually fairs equally well when facing off against Janna, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Ryze makes an ok counter for Janna.
While Ryze does have a higher winrate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Ryze into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Janna matchups, Ryze is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ryze is a decent counter for Janna. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ryze against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ryze to counter Janna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze most often accumulates much more CS compared to Janna. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Ryze versus Janna build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Janna than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ryze had an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Janna with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Janna as Ryze, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Ryze vs Janna clashes, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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