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.
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
The Janna Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Janna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Janna perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Janna plays on the same team as Alistar, she observes a big jump in her total damage output. This difference could signal that Alistar helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Janna plays with Alistar on the same team, she typically receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Janna during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Janna that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Alistar is a very bad companion for Janna. By playing on the same team as Janna, he drops their win rate by -7.1% to 43.9%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Janna and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Janna. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Although, by grouping Janna and Alistar together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Janna to work well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Janna and Alistar synergy build include Ardent Censer, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna boasted an average winrate of 43.9% helping carry Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Janna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Cheap Shot runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 43.9% win rate overall.
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