Janna vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Janna
based on 339 Janna vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Skarner
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 Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Janna vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Janna against Skarner matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between these two champions. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Skarner. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Skarner. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Skarner
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Who is Better, Janna or Skarner?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Skarner, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter for Skarner.
While Janna does have a higher win rate compared to Skarner, when facing one another, Janna also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Janna into Skarneras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Janna vs Skarner 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 teamfights.
Janna is a decent counter for Skarner. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Janna against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Janna to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna on average gets less CS relative to Skarner. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Janna versus Skarner build consist of Redemption, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Skarner than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when playing against Skarner with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Skarner as Janna, Janna players should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Janna vs Skarner counter picks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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