Zed vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Zed
based on 3,628 Zed vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Janna
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Zed vs. Janna matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Janna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Janna. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Zed typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Janna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Janna
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Who is Better, Zed or Janna?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Janna, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter for Janna.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Zed is a terribly counter for Janna. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zed against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed usually gets much more CS relative to Janna. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Zed versus Janna build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Janna than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 47.0% battling Janna with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Janna as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Zed vs Janna counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
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