Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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 stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Taliyah versus Janna matchup stats that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Taliyah often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Janna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate than Janna, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Taliyah into Janna.
Furthermore, Taliyah also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often 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 Taliyah vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Taliyah is a terribly counter to Janna. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Taliyah against Janna.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Janna during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah most often gets much more CS relative to Janna. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Taliyah versus Janna build include Seraph's Embrace, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Taliyah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Janna than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taliyah had an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Janna with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Janna as Taliyah, Taliyah players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Taliyah vs Janna battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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