Janna Build Guide by Canoas

@sagiri
All 3 spells are good on Janna, I only put flash+cv on the build because I think it's what most people will need. Exhaust depends on whether who's taking exhaust already and heal depends on the champion you're laning with (kog'maw, for example, won't really need heal due to his massive range) while flash is the best all-round spells.

I tried defensive but I just find the utility tree more useful.
The differences between 0/21/9 and 0/9/21 are:
Utility: 6% CDR, 15% summoner spells CDR, 2 Gp5, 40 gold, a little experience and a little hp5.
Defence: 3% health, 1% reduced damage, 10% reduced disables, 8% CDR@lvl18, less 2 dmg and a little gold
I don't think that the defense tree makes you that much tougher and you lose CDR earlier in the game. You're using the defense tree but you still put 6 points in enlightment and mercenary which are masteries worse than intelligence and greed. It's not that big of a change really.

@niknameisnik
Whether you take flash, exhaust or heal depends on the team and your playstle, but you should always take CV. CV allows you to safely place wards and prevent ganks where there are no wards, as well as following missing enemies. It's really a must when you know your team isn't going to place enough wards or bother warding at all.

I've read to page 16 and i like your guide +1
But i play Ap janna and i dont play ranked at all. But like i sad realy good guide. btw What do you think about the 0,25 g/5 seals?

Thanks for the guide!
First time:

First time I tried it I got 38 assists, nice job very detailed and easy to read.

are you still recommend this item selection after the upcoming nerf to janna's shield?
without any AP it wont last long enough for the ad buff to be effective. janna will be used only as a cc like this, and there are better chars champs for that

I haven't played her after the nerf since I've been trying lulu, so I don't know how much weaker she got and how noticeable the change is. But even if the change is significant the item build will remain the same, you can't afford AP and the AP won't make her shield last any longer. Whether the shield absorbs 240 or 500 damage, it'll still go down in 1 second.

This nerf was pretty stupid though. They nerfed her laning phase/dmg instead of nerfing what made her so OP, her CC.

Really great build. I agree with pretty much everything that you put in. The only thing I would do differently would be the masteries. I don't put any points in wealth. I find that putting the 2 extra points in awareness is more useful, since it helps with leveling up faster (and therefore giving you an increase in stats like health, armor, mana...etc). Awareness also synergizes well with Locket of Iron Solari since the shield gets stronger with each level up. Other than that, awesome build. +1 from me.

nice guide

Good job, although I would put ignite somewhere along this guide as Janna can be considered an aggressive support that will benefit the team more with damage than utility, keep in mind that her or Alistar can be fatal to lane against if they go aggressive and played well with that style and key to that is ignite.

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Why don't you use Boots of Mobility? It's used by many pro players and not only on Janna. I think, it will be great to have such speed summed with her passive and W skill to set wards everywhere and help everyone. Btw, wonderful guide - short, easy to read and there is nothing unnecessary. Voted up :) (Sorry for my English :))