PSA: Janna is not broken

Lõyalty·8/6/2017, 10:56:21 PM·8 votes·1,505 views

Now before you spam down vote and the elo police rolls around telling me how I'm a boosted bonobo for playing Janna hear me out. There are constant threads of people complaining about Janna and her current state. Just going to say this once, and one time only. Janna is not OP, her items are. Currently, the ancient coin line is giving Janna (and other supports) way too much gold than the other support item lines. Most of Jannas gold revenue before ancient coin was buffed came from her getting assists, since she could not proc spelltheifs effectively and she can't use targons. She was forced into spellthiefs therefore, since picking up coins from the item was not rewarding enough to do so. Now that coin is broken, Janna is receiving tons of gold on top of what she already gets from her assists, allowing her to spike faster and pick up Ardent Censor very early in the game. Janna has great synergy with Ardent censor as well, and if she rushes it before anything else, she will give her entire team massive amounts of stats very early on. Janna also does not fall off, since she was a very good late game support even before her win rate broke through the roof. TLDR; Janna is not broken, her items are.

16 Comments

BestJhinUniverse8/6/2017, 11:02:21 PM3 votes

Janna is stupid broken. You press e a few times and you're suddenly in diamond with no recollection of how it all transpired.

PopcornBunni8/6/2017, 11:23:42 PM1 votes

Lulu 48.9% Bard 48.1% Soraka 53.1 % Nami 51.5% Sona 55.6% Rakan 50.6% Janna 56.5%

item 3301 53.0%

Coin isn't the problem.

Psyrix8/6/2017, 11:28:43 PM1 votes

Janna likely will get some nerfs as her interactions with windspeakers, and other shield/heal boosters is too stron considering her shields were already strong to begin with. As most of the other supports are sitting at a reasonable balance level it is highly unlikely the items themselves will get nerfed as that will affect the rest of the supports and still likely leave janna so high up. Coin and Ardent will likely get nerfs, meddler has stated that in the recent redposts. But janna will still likely receive nerfs

Blutseuche8/8/2017, 2:37:11 AM1 votes

Maybe she isnt broken, but she is strong. Really strong. So strong that i would actually abuse her for freelo. I mean, she got strong due to Champs like Zyra and Karma being nerfed really hard, Coin being extremly good with her, the fact that Ardent scales so disgustingly strong with her and the fact that Tanks are prevalent right now, which she hardcounters.

Her Winrate is also high, due to the fact that shes simple. I do think she deserves a nerf, but at the same time she doesnt, cause its the game around her that made her so strong.

Bloodrage Shadow8/8/2017, 3:33:19 AM1 votes

I feel like right now Janna is just toxic to play against, especially when paired with Tristana. Something needs to be done about Janna. Having nearly a 56% winrate WITH a 27% winrate (according to op.gg with her banrate slowly rising too) speaks for itself that something is clearly op as hell and needs to be addressed. It's probably just coin and Ardent Censor that is just overtuned, seriously who thought Ardents passive was balanced lol..

Current Janna kinda reminds me of when Ivern was really good except you were actually able to punish him for getting caught out.

Story For Glory10/2/2017, 8:48:50 PM1 votes

Janna is so broken there is no counterplay. They even buffed her recently.

I mean lategame her shield (which she will always have back) increases AD so hard that one goes from 150 to 217. 67 free AD and with the ardent censor buffs?

They even buffed her again, they want Janna to be the new unbeatable bullshit champion with no counterplay because some idiot at riot does not seem to know what balancing is, they usually touch just a few champs and leave the majority to rot no matter their state.

HalcyonDweller10/2/2017, 9:06:55 PM1 votes

If it is the items and not Janna herself, why is Janna out-performing other champions that use those exact same items?

Fire Keeper Soul8/6/2017, 11:00:44 PM1 votes

Yeah people already know all of this.

GrievousFetus10/2/2017, 9:09:22 PM1 votes

Look.

Coin and Ardent do not change Janna's play patterns at all. They strictly make her passively stronger via much higher stats. If you nerf coin and ardent Janna continues to play the exact same, she just gets less gold, gives her ADC fewer stats etc. Nerfing coin and censer only tunes her numbers down.

People don't hate Janna purely because she's effective or strong right now. She's complete ass to play against. They hate how she plays, people just didn't start really getting aggravated about it until she was both obnoxious to play against and stupidly strong too.