Tried mid Janna with great results

Hochelaga··1 votes·827 views

I love playing mage-supports champs like Karma, lulu and Morgana. Since the preseason i've been experimenting a lot of things. I tried mid Janna this week with great success.

So far, I got 10 wins, 4 loses with her lanning mid lane.

In early game, she has one of the most annoying poke spell with a low mana cost and low cooldown. On top of being a targeting spell, she gets Aery + Scorch to annoy you even further. Mages that can't heal might have trouble lanning against her since she has a massive movespeed (thanks to her passive and her W) and she'll always be able to poke you with her W.

On late game, she can easily slow down a pushing lane, thanks to her low cooldown on her Q. She can also heal a whole team by 1k with her 350 HP/sec heal from her ultimate.

Don't try to gank her, it's almost no use since she has so many tools to help her get away. A shield, a knockup, a slow and even a push.

Mid Janna isn't mainly picked for her Dmg, but more of a ''Super support'' during late game. She doesn't require expansive items to get rolling. All you really need is Athene and Ardent censer. Ganking her is almost pointless, she'll still be effective during a teamfight.

In early game (level 1-8) Mid Janna is good against : Low sustain mages that can't heal and have skill shots Ziggs Syndra Karthus BrandRyzeTaliyah Melee champions Ekko Diana Fizz Kassadin

Good at countering dashing jungle champions Gragas LeeSin Jax Vi

However, Janna is pretty bad against very bursty and high sustain champions, her biggest weakness in my opinion would be : Vladimir Katarina

Invisible junglers Evelynn Fiddlesticks Shaco

As for a conclusion, Janna mid is currently performing very well you should definetly give it a try. Fun guaranteed ! She is the definition of a pure Nuisance, she slowly kills you and protect very well her allies

1 Comments

Azadethe1 votes

Janna is OP when played correctly. The problem is like with many supports, Janna is usually optimized wrong.

Her current kit was MADE to be built AP/Lich Bane, to both buff her on hit passive, and her move speed. She can 1v1 anyone in game on an AP build with Luden's + Lich bane, and outdps the strongest mages.

I can give an example: About a week ago, I was Zoe support vs a Janna Support. Janna support managed to get 3 kills off Jhin adc, and snowball. She was routinely 1v1ing people because 1) they couldn't get away and 2) her W/Barrier bonus/passive bonus were just outscaling items.

She got to like 13//3/8 before I finally was able to start shutting her down, and almost none of those kills were on me. They were on a Sejuani, Jhin, Jax.... people you expect to dominate a Janna.

But.... even then, I once R > E'd forward on Zoe to try to save Sejuani once, and literally, in the time R was active, Janna 1 shot me on Zoe. She apparently W'd, and followed it up with an auto attack lich bane, because once my R was over, I zoomed back to my starting point after sleeping her, and her auto attack followed me, and half a sec later I was dead.

That game.... I did 38k damage on Zoe. Janna did 35k. As Support. Anyone who knows Janna knows how insane that statement sounds. She's famous for low damage but supporting other people's damage. Since her buff, her average damage is usually 1/3 of a carry's. Before that it was about 1/6th. For a Janna to do 35k..... she had to be a smurf..... and only lost because of the limitations of her ability to control the game.

I was seriously raging at my team for feeding that Janna.

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