Best champion to climb with if you suck

a special one··20 votes·2,606 views

It is Janna. Pretty much all u need to do to slowly climb to dia is stay back, shield ur ad, ward, ocassionally w and q and ult for peel. Its extremely easy and really doesnt take much skill and IQ. Thats also the reason why Janna players are usually bad at the game overall. Trust me, it works.

Janna = free elo

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DHZ7 votes

I was with you until you mentioned IQ. Like wtf

a special one9 votes

Basically u can have the IQ of a pancake and still suceed with janna

GULAG 4 U2 votes

So my IQ is 200 and I main Janna so pancakes have 200 IQ? GG!!!

Edit: did nobody here ever heard of a joke?

Ruin Lance4 votes

no, he's saying that you CAN have the IQ of a pancake. not "you HAVE to have an IQ of a pancake to succeed with janna."

GULAG 4 U1 votes

It's sarcastic.

R FLASH XD2 votes

you wish he was

Clouded BIade1 votes

whats a pancakes u mean flat muffins {{summoner:35}}

Dehitay5 votes

Janna is definitely an easy champion to play and master, but she sure as hell isn't a freelo champion. Her validity is completely dependent on her adc. She can't do crap on her own. If your adc is bad, then you fall behind no matter how skilled you are. The only thing about Janna that might increase win rate is the fact that her kit forces you to play like an intelligent support in order to use it right, instead of going ham all the time like newer players tend to do.

An actual champion that's easy to play and comes with a lot of power is Blitzcrank. Like Janna, he's incredibly easy to master. But unlike Janna, he can actually turn the course of a fight in a huge way. However, there is a limit to how far you can easily climb with him as the higher up you go, the better people get about not getting hooked.

Yooba5 votes

Annie mid. No mechanical skill required. You don't even have to worry about CS'ing since you farm with Q. Totally braindead champion.

chipndip14 votes

"All you have to do with Janna is use all your abilities and ward"

You mean like every support in the game? That's all!?

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Careful, the anti-support circle-jerk is working in this thread.

TeemoXNidalee3 votes

Yes, Janna is pretty braindead. Also just preventing yourself and your teammates from dying can make you win games.

YoungFarmer2 votes

I feel like soraka is pretty braindead too.

TyrekGoldenspear1 votes

Low skill floor, high skillcap.

Only the best Rakas can peel for their ADCs, harrass the enemy, and keep an eye on the minimap to watch for ganks and to clutch heal one of the other lanes to help your top/mid get a kill.

Blame The Carry2 votes

I'd argue Sona over Janna only because Janna requires a bit more knowledge of the game. Knowing her strong match ups, what team comps she excels at countering, and positioning/timing of her Q and Ult take some thought to execute where Sona only needs to manage her passive, keep her allies buffed, and land one skillshot in the form of her AoE lock down ultimate.

In regards to warding etc any support that buys item 2049 is ez wins except in low ELO your lucky if your support even buys it or God forbid, uses the damn thing

Fairyfleur1 votes

While both have a low skillcap they both have high ceilings, However, I feel Janna is a bit easier because of how easily Sona can get all-inned, and how fragile she is.

Pill Slinger2 votes

Yasuo. Doesn't matter if you go 0-42 in the first 8 mins in lane, once the game hits 30 mins, you 1v5.

a special one1 votes

lmao

KVbqbFsC8e2 votes

All supports get carried. Dumb thread. The best champion to climb with is whichever you are best with.

Valexfor1 votes

Actually supports carry a team harder than a carry does since, especially in lower elos, support are the ones with the best game knowledge and map control. Also you can play carry "supports" like Brand, Annie, Zyra, Morgana, build full ap and straight up carry the game like a mid-laner...

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

support are the ones with the best game knowledge and map control.

Those are really the prerogative of the team and under the domain of individual players. As much as I would love to claim these are [still] true, that dynamic suffered a huge shift with ward limits. And low elo players can't/don't make effective use of game knowledge and/or map control. While more of it does tend to get shunted onto the support, it also gets less used to balance out the scales.

Actually supports carry a team harder than a carry does since

Mmmm...... Agree and Disagree on this one. Supports can hard carry games, but not in the same way that damage dealers do - especially right-clickers. "Supports" can bridge the gap by abandoning their role, but proper supports simply are designed to win games. They carry by ensuring that shit-tier Jinx gets fed harder than a buffet at an obesity convention while being called useless (1.5 seasons later and I'm still salty about that game). When most people refer to "carrying", the refer to the act of ending the game. Supports make things happen so other players can end the game. It's a different kind of carry and shouldn't really be compared one-to-one.

Valexfor1 votes

Well, for me having good game knowledge and map control is probably more important than just doing damage, damge won't win you a game if it doesn't reach his target, while control over the map can be usefull in more than one way, unless you play "carry supports" who actually are just mid laners who get auto-filled bot for the most part so they pick a full ap champ and pretend to play support, anyway yeah: while supports don't really do the damage, they are the ones who enable the damage to be done most of the times, and since people really can't play the game how it's supposed to be played (so with a brain) supports are the ones who end up having to shoulder the full load of map control, and that also raises your shot-calling abilities since as a support you're usually the one who looks at the map the most. So yeah, while you mostly won't get those big, flashy pentakills, you will probably be a huge factor in making them possible, unless you actually got carried, everyone can have some bad games or maybe just get carried because someone in his team is just so much better than the enemy team that he solo carries a game leaving you with nothing to do (seriously, I'm happy when it happens, but it feels awful to not have anything to do on the map, especially when you can't even farm...). And yeah, trust me, after playing support for so long (I think I started at the end of season 3 or even before that) I can assure you that, at least up to plat (I've seen a lot of plat games from my cousin, and even there other than the support, people don't even know what map awareness is...) no one other than the supp tends to have any knowledge or awareness of the map, laners focus too much on theyr lanes...

ValyrianBlade1 votes

Actually watched a stream of a challenger player who banned janna and said basically that if his teammate doesn't intent it, then if the enemy support is a Janna main the game is pretty much a free win if you ban her (then also that Janna wrecks the teamfight of who he wanted to play, but still he shared your reasoning).

GULAG 4 U1 votes

I was about to say janna lol

Weathered1 votes

And Amumu

Bhagswag1 votes

You do have fun with that while the enemy has an Alistar or Braum.

Tomosima1 votes

Fiddlesticks works for me like a charm, you dont need any mechanical skill just a great understanding of how to manage your jungle path and what decisions to take.

Swarovsko1 votes

In my opinion Sona and Soraka are easier than Janna. Just have a good positioning and spam q with sona, or just W your adc with Soraka while your adc does the work and you're good to go.

Ruin Lance1 votes

yeah pretty much... it's actually kind of ridiculous the impact she has on the game for doing the smallest things like pressing the e key on your adc, or pressing r to run away.

DeathTheHorseman2 votes

She was an OK champion before this season.

Windspeaker + ardent sensor = Oh my ADC is caught by 3 people alone better I go there in 0.5 sec with my 500MS and press E to give him a 600HP shield and +80AD and also press R to push back all the melee champs so my ADC can just stay where he is and right click them to death....

Seriously Shields and heals are way stronger this season and feel disgusting to play against.

If you are melee assassin/fighter janna is your worst nightmare.

Zero skill required.

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Along that line, it's kind of ridiculous the impact an ADC has on the game for doing an even smaller thing - right-clicking. (>_>)

Ruin Lance1 votes

this is true but a lot of the time an adc is dependent on positioning. BUT thanks to janna's insane disengage and shielding she says fuck you to that too though :^)

Ariel the Cruel1 votes

Supports are also dependent on positioning. And keep the ADC safe is the basis of Janna's entire kit, not just her E. Just like hard engage is the Basis of Leona's. Unfortunately, Janna does have her limits. Any good support can turn a turd into gold, but no support can turn a retard into Faker.

Doozku1 votes

urgot

SwiftKitten881 votes

i think it depends where you are trying to climb from.. MasterYi is pretty braindead in bronze becuase no one will work as a team to stun him and take him down, and becuase they feed. which is league 101.. "Dont feed the Yi"

warpenguin5551 votes

Shes sooooooooooooooooooooo boring though :(

SwiftKitten881 votes

on a side note... if you suck... plz don't climb... stay where you are... we don't want you higher up... XD.

Frius1 votes

janna farts more than gragas

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Unfortunately it's not that easy in silver. Even the shittiest of noobs don't take advantage of free BF swords and idiot-friendly peels.

Though higher up yes. You just outplay people by pressing E tbh.

a special one1 votes

well higher up it gets harder cause you will have to do more

also how do you mean "even the shittiest of noobs"

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Higher up because your teammates are (hopefully) less stupid, they know how to do things on your own and know how to take advantage of your peels and buffs, so you don't have to do extra hard work just to make sure your teammates are doing what they should be doing. In other words, you "just get carried" because all you do is press E and hope that they use the free BF sword.

But yes, if you suck at this game, Janna is still the option. You don't have to worry about landing skillshots since your Q has such a huge hitbox (and that you use it to disengage anyways), and that you will never die unless you somehow stand in the front lines.

Valexfor1 votes

This is true, but I still don't understand how people manage to make her q work... it felt so clunky when I tried her that I literally thought about not using it for the whole match, seriously to all Janna players: I hate you for playing Janna, but you have my respect to make such a clunky skill work.

bad arcade kitty1 votes

the last janna on my team singlehandedly lost two team fights by ulting just in time to save enemy carries... but she had a nice kda like any janna ofc

but generally it's true, my first game recently after a 2 year break was 1/2/21 janna where i literally did nothing, furthermore i cussed at my adc and refused to protect him during laning, and got a win, a good score, honor and a friend request for that

Delphinium1 votes

A Sol

ROYALR3IGN1 votes

I'm a G5 Janna main (130k-140kish mastery points) and she's really reliant on her carries being good in order to be useful. Most teams have the mentality of jump the adc and we win the fight, and janna excels in making sure that doesn't happen. That's why shes powerful. Shes definitely not braindead, even though she doesn't do nearly as much dmg as other fotm supports. You gotta time your shield correctly for trading for example, to benefit your ad the most. Gotta time those shields and ults to save your allies AND set up kills through displacement. If you want a braindead champs to climb with, Tryndamere (Pick a lane and push forever.) Yi? Pretty much any late game champ cause lower elos cant close out games.

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