Azir vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Azir
based on 1,776 Azir vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Janna
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Azir in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Azir vs. Janna counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Azir normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Azir and Janna
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Who is Better, Azir or Janna?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when taking on Janna, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Azir makes an ok counter to Janna.
While Azir does have a lower win rate than Janna, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Azir vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter for Janna. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Azir against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often accumulates much more CS as Janna. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, 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 surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Azir versus Janna build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Janna than with many other common item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 49.4% battling Janna with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Janna as Azir, Azir players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Azir vs Janna counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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