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.
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
The stats shown here clarify several important Janna against Olaf matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. On average, she receives less damage than Olaf. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Olaf, with a 52.0% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Janna does have a higher win rate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Olafas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Olaf matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Janna is a decent counter for Olaf. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Olaf.
If you would like to truly master Janna to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually racks up a lot less CS relative to Olaf. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Janna versus Olaf build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Olaf than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Janna had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing against Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Olaf as Janna, you 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 builds that we analyzed for Janna vs Olaf LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Olaf as Janna are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.