Janna vs Riven
How to Beat Riven as Janna
based on 3,365 Janna vs Riven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Riven Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Riven as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Riven
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 Riven
All of Riven's damage is physical, prioritize high Armor if an opposing Riven gets out of control.
Riven has a great deal of mobility but she cannot move very far with any one skill. Rooting or silencing her during her combo will greatly reduce her effectiveness.
Riven excels at dueling multiple melee attackers at once, as she will be on an almost equal footing damage-wise. If pairing up against Riven, don't go in as double melee until she has expended her full combo.
Janna vs Riven Counter Stats
How to Counter Riven with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several strategic Janna versus Riven matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences between the two. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Riven’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Riven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Riven. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Riven
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Who is Better, Janna or Riven?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually loses when taking on Riven, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a bad counter for Riven.
While Janna does have a lower win rate compared to Riven, when facing one another, Janna also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Janna into Rivenas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Riven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Riven matchups, Riven is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Janna is a somewhat poor counter for Riven. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Janna against Riven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Riven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna usually gets a lot less CS as Riven. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Janna versus Riven build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when facing Riven than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 48.7% battling Riven with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Riven as Janna, you should use 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 that we analyzed for Janna vs Riven battles, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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