Oh look, Janna is pick or ban again.

Broloft·5/13/2016, 10:46:31 PM·2 votes·843 views

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30% pick rate. I'm getting tired of seeing her. It's a mystery too, because there's absolutely nothing rewarding about playing Janna. She's just there for the 53% win rate. In fact, the most challenging aspect of Janna's kit is having to stay awake long enough to see the "Victory" screen.

Seriously, every part of her kit is unrewarding. Her passive is neither fun nor interactive. Her Q takes forever to charge up, and even if you charge it up all the way and manage to hit an enemy champion, it's just a glorified knockup. No other ability in the game, should it take that long to charge up, would ever pay off with such laughable damage. Her W is a point and click that does so little damage, it's basically a slow. Her shield gives the user attack damage. Why? What thematic sense does that make? Who would see a barrier made of wind around Draven and think "That shit makes the Draven's axes do more damage." But at this point, it has to stay. Without the steroid, the shield would be so boring and generic that Janna mains would actually fall asleep before getting to the victory screen. Her ult is basically the only rewarding ability that she has, and that's only because it heals for such obscene amounts. There used to be a time when it was a 2 min CD knockback.

You may argue that Janna isn't meant to do damage, and that she's instead meant to be this boring, uninteractive knockup-slow-shield-knockback bot that runs around the map and protects her allies. You can have that, as long as it's executed well. In her current state though,** Janna is neither fun to play as or against.** Her entire kit has been nerfed into the ground so many times, and she's STILL TOP TIER. And as effective as she is at winning games, she sure as hell doesn't feel strong to play. All I'm saying is, she needs a rework. Bad.

10 Comments

Misfoster5/13/2016, 11:34:14 PM1 votes

well try out ap Janna? its fun and good

GaleWinUnleashed5/13/2016, 11:37:52 PM1 votes

But Janna IS fun to play :D

She's one of my top 3, along with Lulu and Nami.

Leopards Ghost5/13/2016, 11:42:09 PM1 votes

she's fun to play.

put her in a lane with yasuo see how boring she is.

Çhåryzård5/13/2016, 11:42:42 PM1 votes

I haven't seen a janna picked or banned in a long time...maybe thats just me though

Broloft5/14/2016, 3:48:38 AM1 votes

she's literally in every third game

THE BIG BROTHER5/14/2016, 4:28:38 PM1 votes

I always assumed that the shield was a swirling mass of wind that slowed attacks against the target and provided a tail wind for attacks they made, enhancing them as such.

Mysticman895/14/2016, 4:38:19 PM1 votes

I really quite enjoy playing janna sup. A lot of what makes her interesting is the dash interrupting, and godlike peel, the heal on her ult is just a bonus contrary to what you seem to be suggesting.

I've also done janna in every other role on other accounts, and that's quite fun too as people are all 'wtf' as they get murdered by a janna jg. (...It's not actually good, but I kinda outclassed them.)