Janna...

Sakura Mirage·2/11/2016, 2:31:59 AM·7 votes·3,964 views

So with the rise of assassins Janna feels more satisfying to play now and believe me I was already satisfied in the first place. Which leaves me to my main concern which would be the tweaking of Janna possibly the nerfs that may come as she will be a more contested pick due to her countering every assassin that set foot into league. So now that I'm done I want to know what riot thinks of her state is she balanced strong or too strong? And also what the community thinks about her balance state.

Sincerely support main

22 Comments

RiotRiot Sotere2/11/2016, 5:28:41 AM4 votes

She's my favorite. And she's pretty strong. Very strong? Basically. If you want to win, you play Janna . But this has always been true.

Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrsTE1vpoXM

Casri2/11/2016, 12:09:07 PM3 votes

The fact that Janna maintains the highest win rate of any support (54%) even after that very punishing Q instant-cast range nerf in patch 5.17 says a lot. She's incredibly safe and her utility is always invaluable.

Even with all the engage/pick items being built right now ( item 3009 item 3025 item 3742 item 3092 ) Janna is still able to bring safety/lifesaving peel. This will only increase with the influx of assassins.

GlockHammer2/11/2016, 10:18:03 AM3 votes

Janna is a perfect champ atm, clear strenghts, clear weaknessess, I have a beef with alot of champs in the game, but Janna isn't one of them.

MrBuffington2/11/2016, 4:58:56 AM2 votes

I think Janna's in a fine spot. She consistently has a high winrate, but I think that's because 1. she's relatively easy to pick up, but also has a high ceiling for mastery, and 2. she has a well-defined niche, but that niche just so happens to counter a lot of popular champions. I think Riot is more likely to focus on balancing assassins, rather than focusing on Janna; I don't think Riot's trying to enforce an assassin meta right now, it's just that assassins are undergoing changes and thus are going to be unbalanced for a while. I also don't think it's likely that Riot will nerf a counter champion who has a well defined niche/is otherwise pretty healthy. When ADCs had the class update, armor stacking tanks such as Malphite and Rammus took off in winrate, but I don't recall them really getting nerfs.

IRFodder2/11/2016, 4:15:53 AM2 votes

She's good at what she does. Don't take that away from her, they already took scaling away from her and nerfed her slow cd.

Only Play Darius2/11/2016, 7:57:57 AM2 votes

Well playing against a skilled Janna as a melee fighter (my favorite class) of any sort makes me want to kms

VictoryDance962/11/2016, 2:35:58 AM2 votes

Janna has a very high win rate, from what I understand. Honestly, I feel like she is in a pretty good place right now. Having a champion like her actually means that the assassin is not guaranteed a kill on your carry, which is just really stupid and makes deleting enemies way too easy, IMO.

PiVoRx2/11/2016, 11:35:09 AM2 votes

Janna is afk win support, you can watch movies and play her casting ocassional E and when things goes hot you just R and fight is reset. I think she needs some nerfs, turning her "1st tier" Q from instant knockback into slow would be a good start.

SeargentAnus2/11/2016, 2:34:51 AM2 votes

I think if they were going to nerf anything it'd be her Q. Everything else seems pretty balanced on her with a lot of healthy counterplay. Maybe make it, so you can't auto shoot tornadoes if she begins to be a problem give it like a ~.1-.2s charge time minimum.

The Yetii Rider2/11/2016, 2:38:28 PM1 votes

Of course you were already satisfied. She leaves you breathless.

Janna's kit is very hard to nerf. Her auto range is really short, her insta Q is the weakest it's been in years and her ultimate is an AOE instant knock back. You can tweak all the numbers you want, it's going to be strong regardless.

Janna's main issue is just how safe she herself is. In that regard, her base armor, health per level, or the AP scaling on her MS all seem like easy nerf targets.

Ward and Peel2/11/2016, 10:06:10 AM1 votes

HEY! cool a post about janna. i made one a few days ago about making a cast indicator showing direction will travel and an extending line to show how far will travel after 2nd/early activation.

she is the peel queen. knock up, slow, displacement. sheild with new masteries are amazing.

i feel she synergizes with jhin a little too well.

its hard to determine through winrates of supports imo. she seems fine. she isnt putting out tons of damge compared to other supports. and she has no hard lock stun, or a silence. and the heal from her ult isnt the reason her ult is so great.

i hope they leave her alone. except my proposed q change

Sire Hippington2/11/2016, 12:23:18 PM1 votes

She is and allways was to strong, by times(like now) way to strong. She's been consistently in the top 5, most of the time even top 3 winrates for sups over serveral years now, always with a good pickrate aswell. And she's pure hell for any champ that relies on diving the backline. The hardest hardcounter ever seen, and imo extrme hardcounters are very bad for the game, as champselect already can decide that your not going to have any fun this game.