Alistar vs Janna Counter Pick

Alistar’s win condition is landing an all-in; Janna’s entire kit exists to prevent exactly that. Howling Gale knocks back and can be redirected mid-flight, Eye Of The Storm shields whichever ally Alistar targets, and Monsoon throws him away entirely if he does commit, a full answer to every phase of an engage. The result across 1,052 games on patch 16.13.1, a large sample by matchup standards, is a 44.8% win rate for Alistar, rated Hard.

Janna’s passive, Tailwind, grants move speed to allies moving toward her, which lets her ADC kite away from Alistar’s 330 speed the instant he telegraphs a dive. Her own stats are fragile, 570 health and armor reaching only 104.5 by level 18, but Alistar rarely gets to punish that fragility because Zephyr passively boosts her speed further and lets her pass through units to disengage. Both champions share a 7/10 difficulty rating, so this is less about execution gap and more about kit counters: displacement and shields are a near-direct answer to a support whose entire identity is forcing bad fights. Janna turns Alistar’s aggression into wasted cooldowns more reliably than most peel-focused supports manage.