Janna vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Janna
based on 3,243 Janna vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Darius
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
Advice to Win Against Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Janna vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several important Janna vs. Darius counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Darius. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Darius. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Darius
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Who is Better, Janna or Darius?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Darius, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Janna makes an ok counter for Darius.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Darius, when facing one another, Janna also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Janna into Dariusas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Darius matchups, Janna is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Darius. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna to counter Darius during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Darius. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Janna versus Darius build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Janna combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Darius than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 50.7% when playing against Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Darius as Janna, Janna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Janna vs Darius matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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