Among the original 40 champions, she is one of the some who have not had a modern visual update yet. She did get one awhile ago, but it's so outdated now that she actually needs another. Her model is bad, her hair makes no sense, her skills barely have any particles and it's just bleh.
Still better than her original model:
http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Janna10.jpg
Good times...
I'd say all of these champs would have to be updated before Janna would even be considered.
Well, she was updated around the time Kayle and Morgana were updated too. Judging by the fact that Morgana and Janna just got skins, this may not happen anytime soon (though I'd love if they did, they need it).
yes as long as they make her phone operator voice her voice over for all janna skins
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Including some decent clothes. This toilet paper wrapping is just insulting.
I think there's champions that need it a lot more than janna. Example evelynn. She looks like goku's SSJ
I'm still waiting for the day they make Kayle normal sized. Funny to think how heavily she and Morgana featured in those early LOL trailers :O
i think urgot/warwick/nunu are in more need of a VGU than janna...
She needs a full gameplay update, so her play style isn't point click E on adc and press R to screw over any melee champ when they get near. Change her to something that requires skill to play; ditto true for Soraka. Gear her more toward champions like Bard and Nami, who are well-balanced ranged supports that require skill to play and have great pay off for people who play them at a high level.
Janna is an interesting champion. Though she's not in a seriously unbalanced state, some vgu might be nice for her after the main-concern champions get reworked. For one, her forecast's zephyr needs to have it's animation last longer, and her hair def needs the new visual mechanism discovered for sol's tail and yorick's cape (right now it looks as if it's just a giant stick with too much hair gel, and she swings it around when she turns like a baton)
Thematically she is really lacking in that wind/weather feeling. For example azir players actually gets that emperor feeling, when you verse sol you'll certainly be gazing at his stars, taliyah's overall mobility makes her feel like a little pecking bird trying to go from branch to branch while her cc like weaver's wall and the stone traps gives her that sense of safety from mother earth (the great weaver); jhin's abilities literally test your sniping skills while that spine chillingly calmness between autos make you feel like a cold blooded killer; if you think about it, all of these cleverly designed kits and many more really helps you appreciate the theme of the champion. Janna has none of that.
A good question to ask is, if you remove all of her particles, and the names and any other artistic references to "wind" or weather, would you still see her as a windweaver? Same with lulu, if you were to remove all of her glittery particles, would you see her as a fae sorceress? Not really. You can literally swap the two themes and particles, and they can still fit quite well. It's true that Janna is balanced, she has her footing in a player's selection of supports. But "super fun and exciting to play"? "unique in play style?" "aligns with wind/ storm fantasies"? No, i don't think so.
Right now, you can either wait for riot's roster update, when they are going to update supports (enchanters) and hope they include janna in it. Or wait till they finish updating all the champions that people listed here and in other places that's more significantly unbalanced than janna. If you ask me I wouldn't rush for just a visual update, purely because a full vgu might be more exciting.
Too bad they don't do VUs these days as VGUs serve better overall for the state of the game. Janna though doesn't really needs much gameplay changes as she's pretty decent..so it might be awhile before we see anything there.
Would be nice to see her recieve a visual update, but to be honest her skins look fine, it's just her base model that is kinda ick. Just switch to her Legendary or Star Guardian skin and the problem is solved until they can update her.
I would be happy with a simple update to her staff ;.;
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Lets go full rework on her and change her into something other than big, red "fck you" sign flying around.
Needs a VU real bad :c
Janna is in no way or shape in need of a visual update. She also just got a new skin if you didn't notice.
