A few observations ive made with my most recent game

Succubús GF··1 votes·379 views

So I was like "hmm I know jannas q damage got gutted to the absolute max because riot games said "no fk you" to diversity from supports going to other lanes (YET ZIGGS CAN BE AN ADC AND LUCIAN CAN GO MID/TOP TY RIOT GAMES ILYSM YOU TOTALLY ARENT A HYPOCRITE), but let's try janna mid." So I was laning against karma. She could not solo kill me and I was almost bullying her quite a bit. Then the dives started happening. I got dived a total of 5 times that game. A volibear dived me 4 times, a kled once. Turrets are nothing. They might as well be there for decoration because I swear to god they didn't even scratch volibear when he autoed me three times. The two main points from this, if you haven't inferred this yet is 1) turrets literally do nothing, like a golden egg, worth $ but not strong enough to do anything damaging 2) Tanks do too much damage. Volibear built complete tank, no damage item AT ALL. And 100-0d me? I even ulted and e'd and q'd and still died? Like what the fk. Seriously who said "Hm this champion is going to build full tank, let's give them some damage!1!" I also wanted to address the fact that karma and morgana are supports but fully capable of mid laning yet solo lane lulu got gutted as did janna. Somebody told me that it "wasn't interactive" So instead of making it fun/interactive you just deleted it? Seems legit. But like anivi can r a wave, ahri can q a wave. Lb can w q a wave. Morgana can w a wave. They can all do this safely? Like is that any different? I am honestly so sick of hypocrisy. X champion cant do this bc of this but other x champion CAN and its fine. Like you could've done something cool like "If janna is following or closer to tornado it builds up for more damage. This would give a more risk factor while also making her relatively more fun.

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IxtaliKing3 votes

 I also wanted to address the fact that karma and morgana are supports but fully capable of mid laning yet solo lane lulu got gutted as did janna.

It's the other way around, Morgana and Karma are solo lane mages fully capable of supporting. Karma in particular was designed to be more of a hybrid mage/support, with more utility but less reliable damage than most mages, and vice versa for supports.

Lulu and Janna were only intended to be marksmen aides, sadly. It's a shame, I think it would be cool if more supports had the ability to double as solo lane utility mages.

Succubús GF1 votes

Yet riot allows other champions to break out of intended role :/

IxtaliKing1 votes

The only way a support like Janna could work in a solo lane without a rework is if her Q dealt more damage for wave clear. If Janna could reliably wave clear with her charged Q the lane would be very uninteractive and way too safe for her. Same with Lulu, if she's strong in a solo lane she's unhealthy simply because the amount of utility she has.

Succubús GF1 votes

They nerfed her q scalings. Also if you read my post thoroughly, anivia, morgana, ahri etc can do that

IxtaliKing1 votes

Yes I read your post. Morgana can do this once she has a little ap, buttie rest of her kit wants to lock you down and kill you. Janna on the other hand has a kit that wants to deny kills, having good wave clear would just create stale gameplay in solo lanes.

Anivia's wave clear is her ult, and I'm guessing is an intended strength.

Succubús GF1 votes

Janna NEEDS ap to waveclear though. She should be allowed to play like a mage if she wants. Considering Diana can build as a diver or as an assassin or how Lucian can go mid but w.e She'd bring good utility like orianna

Hextech Healer1 votes

As a Janna player I understand this, it would be nice to have the ability to also do damage. I would say you could try AD Janna as that usually ends up being more likely to work, from what I've seen.

Succubús GF1 votes

I'm saving up my ip for A janna related name >.> But yeah it would be nice but riot said NOPE ;/ Feelsbad I wanna blow them away

Hextech Healer1 votes

Yea it would be nice. Also her shield on turrets is hardly useful either. I made a post about that actually.

https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/Fgy0Zdfy-janna-turret-shield-update

Succubús GF1 votes

I'm going to actually upvote that because I was thinking about it a lot and its like a waste of a shiled pretty much shields nothing

Hextech Healer1 votes

I actually had it get in my way today, I was trying to shield a teammate and they walked behind the turret so i clicked turret on accident and my teammate died. It seems even more useless in that situation. The turret doesnt even gain the AD buff lol.

Thanks for upvote!

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