Janna vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Janna
based on 4,827 Janna vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Janna vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Janna in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Janna against Graves matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Graves. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Graves. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Graves
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Who is Better, Janna or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Janna usually fairs equally well when facing off against Graves, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Janna makes an ok counter to Graves.
While Janna does have a lower win rate compared to Graves, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Gravesas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Janna in order to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often picks up less CS compared to Graves. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Janna versus Graves build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Graves than with most other common item sets. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when countering Graves with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Graves as Janna, Janna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Janna vs Graves LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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