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The Legend of the Sleepy Janna

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Very good guide, thanks for posting!

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I've recently started to play Janna support in my ranked games and this guide has helped me so much. Thank you! The guide's aesthetic is also amazing!

(955) |

Thanks for the kind words, xxseraphinaaxx! Hope you keep winning and having fun w Janna :)

Isn't having 15 ADCs in "ideal" a bit counterproductive?

(955) |

well the implication is that essentially Janna works well with everyone. Some ADC benefit more from different supports, but they are in good hands w her nonetheless since she has her unique shield (AD boost benefits all ADC), a lot of peel and even tools to engage.

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Very usefull guide ! I'm winning my lanes more often with Janna now, thanks. Also love the aesthetic, good work !

(955) |

thank you Khengor, I'm happy to hear that! hope you continue to enjoy Janna :)

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I have a question : do you build Ardent Censer if your ADC is Jhin ?

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(955) |

so one thing to keep in mind is that Ardent Censer is generally a great purchase regardless of the AS buff because of the other two unique passives - one of which increases your movement speed (great for Janna) and the other your shielding/healing power (& this is all in addition to the AP, CDR and mana replenishment too).

That being said, unless you have someone else on your team who would benefit from the AS (like Irelia, Twitch, Jax... anyone who is AA-reliant) then you can afford to skip or at the very least delay Ardent when Jhin is your ADC.

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Thank you for your answer !

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Pleasant visual update - it's interesting how you've pared the coding right back. I noticed the "Spells" header is missing an L.

(955) |

thank you, I'll fix that! yeah I like to keep things simple I suppose, but I'll probably change some things up when I have more time, just needed to update the guide quickly so I decided to switch to the new layout while I'm at it.

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i don't have any criticism i just adore your aesthetic for this guide
spooky rights

(955) |

thank you very much! 🎃

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just realized janna's head got replaced with the pumpkin as a reference to the headless horseman
amazing

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(955) |

ding ding 😄 the headless horseman is a character originally from Washington Irving's 'the legend of the sleepy hollow' ; hence the name of the guide too!

Wrong. Spell thief is the worst item to Janna and the worst thing to Max W. I have 505K with Janna and im was Eune 621 best Janna main. Star with Coin, because u will get wards faster, u will get more mana back. For runes take cookie and timewarp tonic, u wil ldont need that lilbit green rune to heal a lilbit better and shield, its too useless. You are support, you dont must to poke the enemy, Janna is a great disengage support focus on this. Mobafire should help a lot to learn about champions, about items. If u star Coin, rush for Ardent or Mikael, second item for Redemption, third item Solari, Redemption more important bc of cdr., always get the supportive items if u go with coin, if sadly u go with spellthief, rush for Ardent or Athene, then two slowly thing idk what the item's name, i play the game hungarian. xd Jnna's barrier is scale from AP, so you should stack AP for better heal and shields.

(955) |

the way you play Janna is completely valid and lots of pros do do E max and Coin, play passively and focus on utility. Lots of pros also like to do W max and play Janna as a poke support by maxing W and getting AP in items. Both are valid and I personally prefer to play in the latter style. I have highlighted that it is my personal preference to do this in a couple places in the comments/guide and do have Coin start featured in the guide; so I don't think it's a problem that this is my main build in the cheatsheet.

What you're recommending as a build (both ardent, redempt, miakel solari AND the AP one if I sadly go spellthief's) are in the guide as recommended build paths.

For runes, my build cheat sheet doesn't recommend the healing or shielding green runes, those are just options in the guide itself. My build recommends Cosmic Insight and cookies.

I didn't said your build is invalid, just to start with spellthief is really risky, and it's more wiser to start with coin, u will don't know your enemies skills how good are them and u will cant stop champions who play their combos twice or three times, i mean Katarina or champions who make slow and aa fast because Janna's E don't give enough barrier what u will need and in early your shield's cooldown is really really high. Also if the enemy is too poke champion, u will take a really big risky to start with spellthief. Also Janna is a big counter of Leona. Janna can Cancel Leona's E and this is a big thing against her.

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I didn't think you said that my build was invalid, I was just telling you that I think both are valid and therefore I don't believe it is wrong for my guide to prefer one rather than the other!

I understand what you mean by saying Coin is wiser. In many circumstances - when you're in soloQ with an unfamiliar ADC, against all-inners, etc - you will want to take Coin.

However, in an ideal world Spellthief's is your go-to. You WANT to play poke Janna, be aggressive, get AP and make a big impact early game if you can. That should be, imo, your default and that's why it's in my cheatsheet as the #1 option.

If you're in a position where you can't play aggressively - like I said a bad matchup for example - then you go with the next best thing and take Coin, protect your ADC and go for a more conventional utility-based build.

And yeah you're right, Janna is a notorious Leona counter. I mention that in the abilities chapter under Zenith Blade :)

As a Janna main i'm also happy if i can learn from other players, also sorry for my misunderstanding, i'm just living in the ardent meta when Janna was the support queen. I miss those times. :D Sad but it's not a support meta or Assasin or Tank, it's ap support's meta mybe. That always makes me sad when i cant heal whole my team as Soraka with W... Also Janna was great too with Ardent and Solari combo with Mikael's crucible, i should cry for those times, true, that was insane strong, but that was a chance to carry your team as support and that was an annother way to carry without damage. Now only damage champions can carry like Zed, Brand, Lux, Mordekaiser, Garen, but dude, wtf, Mordekaiser and Garen and Darius are tanks, why they have insane dmg? xD I'm always thought tank's job to use the armor and hp to take more dmg to win a teamfight, also Jax is too tanky with insane dmg, its looks unfair. ;c

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Really good guide, thank you 🦌

(955) |

happy to help :) 🦌

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best janna guide for sure, it is so well put together i can't believe someone actually took the time to do this, i am wayyy to lazy to ever do anything remotely compared to this, thanks for all the work, carry on

(955) |

much love poured into it over the years, it was first published in.. january 2013 I believe. About 6 years to make it this detailed :) thanks for the kind words Kasaigami! 🌪🐦

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no problem! damn, that's a lot of time, you can surely notice! thanks again for the guide and even more so for replying :)

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I think this is by far the best guide i've ever seen, i mean it's really informative and you can learn just about everything about . But what i love the most is that it just looks beautiful and it's so enjoyable to look at. :)

(955) |

you can thank @ jhoijhoi for the beautiful graphics! I'm glad you found it helpful, thank you for the kind words :)

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and this is why i have amazing jannas on my team AH

(955) |

hope that's not sarcasm :^)

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nah nah, jannas are too clutch sometimes :')

Really useful, helped with learning Janna and then keeping that skill up till later in ranked. Personally I prefer to build a death cap or something else instead of Mikaels, but Mikaels works just as well. Loved it, thanks!

Hey! :) just a quick question, and i want your most honest profound answer!
What do you think about-- instead of taking Inspiration, for the boots and +5cdr on everything, you take resolve for the font of life, and revitalize? Just curious because i have experimented on both, and sometimes i lean in on the fact that since aery gives a shield, the revitalize will help with aery, your shield and r which is good and it does even more if they're low. Just want to know the best option for my second page.

(955) |

I think Inspiration is better but you can go resolve if you like it more. I think Revitalize is a meh rune, the boost is very small except when the target is lowish health, then it's okay. IMO the rune in general is weaker on shielders than on healers, because it's always better to have a stronger heal, whereas a stronger shield won't always be used. I think your E's CD, throughout laning phase, is very long and you won't use your E enough to make a lot of use of the boost. You don't only use your E to shield damage either, but often for the AD boost, so not every shield boost from Revit. will go used. As for your ult, I think it's safe to say that more often than not you use it for peel and not for healing, so Revitalize doesn't improve it very much either.

In SOME scenarios, Revitalize might make you win a fight or survive some close encounter. But I think in more cases it won't be very useful and you're better off getting magic boots or pots or just CDR from inspiration.

So it's really down to your preference at the end of the day, it's good that you've tested both and maybe if you keep testing you can make up your mind for sure. For me, I rarely notice that Revitalize has been particularly useful, but I can always feel the impact of magic boots or extra sustain for example.