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Janna
Patch 16.2.1
SupportDifficulty
Medium
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Survive the laning phase without giving up kills. In mid-to-late game, stick to your strongest carry and use and to deny every single enemy engage attempt. A 0-death ADC is your path to victory.
Playstyle
The ultimate disengage specialist. Your job is to make the enemy feel like they can never touch your ADC. You win by frustrating the enemy's engage and keeping your carries topped off with shields and AD buffs.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Unmatched peel against dash-heavy champions using and
- +High map pressure due to massive movement speed from passive and
- + provides a significant AD steroid, effectively giving your ADC an extra item in trades
- +Can single-handedly reset a bad teamfight with
Weaknesses
- -Extremely low base health—getting hit by one CC chain usually means death
- -Highly reliant on mana management; spamming or will leave you empty quickly
- -Vulnerable to long-range poke champions (like Xerath or Ezreal) who don't need to dive
- - active removes your passive movement speed, making you a slow target until it's back
Abilities
Allies gain speed running toward you. This is why you should lead the way during retreats. You also deal magic damage based on your bonus Move Speed—build items like Shurelya's to make your and autos hurt.
Your most important tool. Do not just throw this out for damage. Use the instant double-tap to knock up enemies mid-dash (like Leona E or Lee Sin Q). Charging it is only for zoning off corridors or following up on other CC.
Your primary lane poke. While it's off cooldown, you move faster and walk through units. Be careful: once you use it to slow an enemy, you lose that speed. Use it when you're winning the trade, not when you're being chased.
A shield that also grants Attack Damage. Put this on your ADC right before their projectile hits an enemy or when they are about to take damage. It can also be used on turrets to save plates or boost the turret's damage.
A massive knockback followed by a channelled heal. Use it to shove divers away from your carry. You don't always need to channel the heal—sometimes the 0.5s knockback is all you need to save a life. Don't push enemies into safety by mistake.
Teamfight Role
Bodyguard and Disruption Engine.
Stay in the backline. Your goal isn't to kill—it's to make the enemy's life miserable. Use to stop channeled ults or dashes. Use on whoever is being focused. Use if the enemy frontline gets too close to your carries.
If your team is ahead and the enemy is retreating, use your high speed and to hunt down stragglers for your team to clean up.
Combos
Standard Lane Poke
→ Auto-attack → self/ally
Slow them with W to guarantee the auto-attack. Shield yourself or your ADC to absorb the return fire while you walk away with the speed from .
The Disengage
(instant) → → Walk away
When an enemy jumps on you, double-tap Q immediately for an instant knockup, then W to slow them so they can't follow up after they land.
The Catch
(hidden) → Wait → → Release
Cast Q into a bush or behind a wall where they can't see the windup. Use W to slow the target so they stay in the path of the incoming tornado.
The Flash Insec
Flash → → (toward team)
High-risk play. Flash behind a priority target and use R to blow them into your team. Follow up with an instant Q to keep them CC'd for the kill.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | poke is very high. You can often chunk the enemy ADC and secure bush control early. |
| Level 3 | You have your full kit: for peel, for poke/slow, and for protection. You are very hard to gank now. |
| Level 6 | is a massive safety net. It allows your ADC to play much more aggressively knowing you can reset any dive. |
| Level 11 | Rank 2 heal becomes significant in mid-game objective fights, often out-healing enemy Ignite or burn damage. |
Tips & Tricks
- •You can cast while your ADC's auto-attack is mid-air; they will still get the bonus damage when it hits.
- • can be used to scout bushes. Listen for the sound effect of it hitting an enemy in the fog.
- •Against Alistar or Leona, hold and only double-tap it the moment they start their dash animation.
- • heals everyone in the circle. If your team is doing Baron/Dragon, use it to top everyone off after the objective is secured.
- •Your means you should always run slightly ahead of your fleeing allies so they get the 6% speed boost.
- •Shielding a turret with gives it the bonus AD, making it hit harder against diving enemies.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Using while being chased by multiple people.→You lose your passive Move Speed and ghosting effect, making it easier for them to catch and kill you.
- ✕Letting charge for too long during a teamfight.→The enemy will simply walk out of the path. Instant double-taps are much more reliable for peel.
- ✕Using and immediately moving or casting another spell.→The channel is broken and the heal stops instantly, potentially losing your team the fight.
- ✕Spamming for no reason in lane.→You will run out of mana and be unable to protect your ADC when a real trade happens.
- ✕Positioning in front of your ADC.→You are too squishy to tank. You should be slightly behind or parallel to them to provide support.
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