Thresh vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Thresh
based on 4,135 Thresh vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Thresh vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Thresh vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Thresh
Tips for Playing as Thresh against Janna
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Advice to Win Against Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Thresh vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Thresh in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several strategic Thresh versus Janna counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s ratio of NaN, showing that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Janna..
Thresh usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Janna. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Thresh and Janna
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Who is Better, Thresh or Janna?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Thresh makes a poor counter to Janna.
While Thresh does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when on opposite teams, Thresh also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Thresh into Jannaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Thresh is a bad counter to Janna. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Thresh against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Thresh in order to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Janna. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Thresh versus Janna build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Thresh incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Janna than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when countering Janna with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Janna as Thresh, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Thresh vs Janna fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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