An Idea to give Janna back some of her solo lane capabilties

Witch of Babylon··11 votes·6,006 views

Now before you downvote this because "Janna deserves to die and every post supporting her", I just need you to know that this simple change wouldn't really affect her support role at all, but more of a helping hand to solo lane Janna.

Janna mid was only nerfed because Riot deemed it as "uninteractive". This was true, as all Janna mid players did was plant a tornado, charge it, and watch the minion wave disappear. Seeing this, they decreased the overall base damage of her tornado by 75 and the scaling by 10%. This caused her to no longer be played mid almost completely. I can agree that this was kind of a bad mechanic for a solo laner. Imagine if Anivia could ult the wave and it would keep on going no matter how far away you walked from it?

However, I have an idea that would allow Janna to mid lane again in a more interactive way.

Zephyr (W): Effect Range: 150

This simple change allows Janna to farm more efficiently, while also forcing her to go into lane if she decides to play passively. This would give the opponent a chance to damage Janna unlike old Janna.

This would not affect her support role for 2 reasons.

  1. The effect range is small, smaller than a Syndra sphere. There is a low chance it might hit both the support and the "ADC".
  2. No non-bronze bot lane is going to group that close, considering Brand and Fiddlesticks exist.

I think Janna would make a fine addition to the mid lane. It would be like a Lulu that's just safer and with less damage potential.

11 Comments

DuskDaUmbreon7 votes

Sounds good. Although she wouldn't be useful anyways because of those mana costs - she'd be out of mana way too soon.

Maybe make it partially or completely refund cost on unit kill as well, or just instead? Again, no real bonus to her botlane, as it'd just increase farming power, but it'd make her far more useful mid.

destroyer227194 votes

I think that Janna is just too hated. I have my tilt whenever I worked so hard for damage with mechanics and resources become useless. But the thing with Janna is that she's really difficult to master. Positioning is key due to tornado placements and angling as well as a perfect disengage monsoon to save yourself from ganks. I don't play Janna as much I play Nami most of the time. Nami and Janna are long the best supports for entire seasons but since janna got nerfed to hard I guess no one is contesting the season-streak S tier support.

Requiemsfire3 votes

"Interactive"

More like she just autos the minions and throws a tornado out before backing away

Kulle Aid2 votes

ya that -5 nerf to her e was to much. bring back the 5 damage!!

saltran2 votes

Sorry, diversity is Heimer-Fiddle on botlane, the supps and adcs that are traditionally on botlane are "unhealthy and unfun" to play against when they are on solo lanes so Rito nerfs them quick.

SugeMinPikk2 votes

No

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Rıots Bad Client1 votes

Maybe Have her Q change. possibly Increase the ap ratio, But reduce the damage and knock up for each unit hit.(So no free safe wave clear) (Also reduce the base damage and reduce the Mana Cost)

Another possibility they can do is when you W a creep you can be refunded 80% of the mana and CD.

Another thing they can do is. While E is on Janna Auto Attacking reduces the CD of her E by a % (This buff's AD janna)

Elkington VI1 votes

The problem with making Janna a decent solo laner is that she brings a wealth of utility, making her nearly impossible to shut down.

It's the same issue as some tanks that used to take over top lane from bruisers and other dedicated damage dealers with little to no utility.

When high utility picks are allowed to do damage, they become the best picks in the game. Selfish dps kits simply can't compete unless their numbers are way overtuned for whatever reason.

leakinb1 votes

Why bring her into solo lane? Just curious She isn't designed to be solo and it would need great change other than what u have suggested As a fair laner, you need to have decent waveclear/ sustain in lane/ poke/ dueling power at least one Seems her kit is not that suitable in solo

Sukishoo1 votes

A lot of champs aren't technically "designed" to be played in certain roles, but when you can change small things that would help them out in another role it helps to bring more diversity to the game. So, you know, we can see other things being played rather than the same thing over and over.

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