Janna vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Janna
based on 3,320 Janna vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Swain
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 Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Janna vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Janna in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some valuable Janna against Swain matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Swain. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Janna and Swain
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Who is Better, Janna or Swain?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Janna usually wins when trying to fight Swain, with a 51.9% win rate. As a result, Janna makes a good counter for Swain.
While Janna does have a higher winrate than Swain, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Janna into Swainas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Janna has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often 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 Swain matchups, Janna is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Janna is a decent counter to Swain. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Janna against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna to counter Swain 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 mind the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Swain. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Janna versus Swain build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Janna included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 51.9% battling Swain with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Swain as Janna, you 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 builds players picked for Janna vs Swain counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
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