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When I play support, it's usually Janna in bottom lane and I donate CS to whoever's down there. Those who have said that Janna is weaker early game vs. other supports but better during teamfights and ganks, you'd be right. Because you lack heals to keep you and your partner afloat, you have to use your bucketload of CC to establish lane dominance and use clutch shields at the correct time, otherwise your carry will get too heavily harassed. Still, I think she's an important pick against AoE teams, or for teams where your lineup is lacking in CC. Janna is capable of being offensive and defensive in teamfights, whereas Soraka functions primarily as a defensive support/babysitter.
The best example I can think of was playing as Janna+Ashe vs. Sona+Ezreal. Their harass walked all over ours and any hits we traded were healed up nearly immediately. Once 6 was hit, there was an attempt by me to knock Ez up with the tornado, flash over and ult him toward our tower with an Ashe arrow following up to hit him in teh faec, but Ez's health was too high from Sona's heals during laning. So Ez blinked out with E, Sona stopped us from chasing with her ult, and that was that.
Having said that, in a game where a Tristana demanded mid over our Kassadin, I've also played as Zilean in bottom lane donating CS to a Kassadin, and we walked all over Ashe+Taric with our superpoke. Made their Taric OOM trying to heal the two of them and both of them were zoned for a good portion of the laning phase. Taric would have normally been a strong enemy in the lane against a conventional AD+Support lane because of his armour aura, but it did nothing to Kass+Zil.
Sometimes, traditions are best broken.
The best example I can think of was playing as Janna+Ashe vs. Sona+Ezreal. Their harass walked all over ours and any hits we traded were healed up nearly immediately. Once 6 was hit, there was an attempt by me to knock Ez up with the tornado, flash over and ult him toward our tower with an Ashe arrow following up to hit him in teh faec, but Ez's health was too high from Sona's heals during laning. So Ez blinked out with E, Sona stopped us from chasing with her ult, and that was that.
Having said that, in a game where a Tristana demanded mid over our Kassadin, I've also played as Zilean in bottom lane donating CS to a Kassadin, and we walked all over Ashe+Taric with our superpoke. Made their Taric OOM trying to heal the two of them and both of them were zoned for a good portion of the laning phase. Taric would have normally been a strong enemy in the lane against a conventional AD+Support lane because of his armour aura, but it did nothing to Kass+Zil.
Sometimes, traditions are best broken.
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I just met a Taric + Annie.. fml xD
They were clearly premade and the Zilean I laned with didn't play carefully at all :p
It seems to work well, since they have tons of CC and nice laning sustainability.
I think Ashe + Soraka is pure **** to face. She just have free farm and is able to carry like a boss
They were clearly premade and the Zilean I laned with didn't play carefully at all :p
It seems to work well, since they have tons of CC and nice laning sustainability.
I think Ashe + Soraka is pure **** to face. She just have free farm and is able to carry like a boss
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