Janna vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Janna
based on 793 Janna vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Janna vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Janna vs. Elise matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Elise. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Elise
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Who is Better, Janna or Elise?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when playing against Elise, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter for Elise.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Eliseas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Janna vs Elise matchups, Janna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Janna is an above average counter to Elise. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Elise. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Janna versus Elise build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Elise than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.5% when playing against Elise with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Elise as Janna, Janna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Janna vs Elise counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.5% win rate overall.
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