This whole guide is a fail, to put it bluntly and I will explain why. First off, Janna is SUPPORT, not a fighter and you are playing her as such. You want your carries to be as high a level as possible and take most of the gold, and by using a SUPPORT hero in mid your carries will be weaker, and thus your entire team weaker. Using Janna as a carry is just bad bad bad bad and even more bad. A support hero as carry? Think dude... think! You are horribly crippling your carries doing this. Your job is to crowd control, shield, and heal your teamates and this guide does none of those. Play on your heroes strengths, not weaknesses. By doing it your way, you are starting from behind and fighting a losing battle.

Second, taking smite instead of flash or CV for your team is a very bad idea. Without flash you are very susceptible to ganks, even more so because you dont take your ult at lvl 6 which can save your life and your teamates. With your item build, you have little to no health at all which means later, the enemy will make you their ***** without even breaking a sweat. Back to smite... you get a little extra gold, sure. Instead of taking one of your spec spell slots, why don't you learn to last hit instead? Mid is farming and killing, not pushing! Read a map control guide to understand why pushing mid isn't a good idea at all.

Thirdly, Janna has just 4 bars of health to start and can EASILY be harassed by anyone with a brain, especially because you dont have CV to check brush. You only have a slow and 1 pop up, and if you miss your pop up your dead. You took all ability power runes? Read the runes guide on this site for how to properly rune a hero. Janna should have mana regen, cd reduction, etc.

Lastly... I did try to play Janna as a carry and it didn't work at ALL. You simply don't have enough dmg output to kill them. All they have to do is dodge your Q spell and a third of your dmg is gone.

JANNA IS SUPPORT: DON'T PLAY HER AS AN AP CARRY!

I have jungled janna and dps'd as her plenty of times and she does fine. you just need to learn your niche, every hero has one even janna. She has the capability to jungle and dps, you just need to fine tune it to your needs like me. First few games I was easily carrying the team starting off with a phage and building into either a frozen mallet or a trinity force. Hell I've even jungled with Heimer...

I don't NEED the ult or the shield in the middle lane. If you do, then get it... I don't. As for smite, I never said it was to defend towers, i don't need smite to defend, I just use it to stay on the enemy tower.

be clever, use that mass of pink in your skull and think.

Smite to defend towers? Deathfire grasp on janna? NO ULTI ON lvl 6?

Sorry dude, but this "guide" really blows.

THANK YOU! HAHAHA

You get the idea of this, just because the person is at their tower, doesn't mean they're safe at all. That's where I get half my kills, at THEIR tower because they let their guard down.

And yeah, why does smite HAVE to be a jungling spell, it's a spell that does massive damage to a creature, incredibly useful... especially if you're trying to snatch a dragon or baron from the enemy XD.

Thank you Exiton for taking the time to read through it and analyze what it was that I was going for.

I think too many people dismiss smite as a jungle only power. It can give you a really nice boost early game if your playing a character that has difficulty farming early or if your new to the game and find last hitting difficult. I used to use it on gangplank all the time until i got better at last hitting and zoneing, you need that IE asap.

This build uses it in a creative way. Janna is such a good tower pusher and although being pushed back to your tower normally puts you in a pretty safe position with Janna your not so safe.

awesome man, thanks for the positive feedback. Yeah, the gold from smite is just an added bonus but the intensity of pushing that lane is what i'm looking for from smite.

this is an interesting concept, i havent really thought of adding smite to casters in nonjungle builds before, its a good idea though, especially for those situations where your trying to feed someone and dont really have the ability to farm...

we all need items otherwise we cant do are part, so +1 for creativity =)

If i use the spell technically it isn't a waste. take the time to read it, you'll see.

soooo u use smite for a spell and u dont jungle thats a waste of a spell so ur build fails and i still didnt read....

I agree with you, janna in the jungle is about as useful as a bridge made of sugar... which is why this isn't a jungling build. If it was a jungling build i would have titled it "Janna Jungle", but i didn't. You should take the time to read so you could save yourself the embarrassment of putting your foot in your mouth.

awesome, let me know how it works out for you when you get the chance to play her.