Arcane Comet allows Janna to have stronger laning presence, and can be a reliable source of extra poke with Zephyr. Zephyr is a single target ability, meaning it reduces Arcane Comet's cooldown significantly faster than aoe abilities. You can take Summon Aery for less damage, but more sustain in lane/late game, especially if playing vs a dangerous comp such as Draven and Brand.

Janna's mana costs poking with W, and sustaining with E, can ramp up quickly. Manaflow Band helps negate running out of mana in laning phase as fast, and grants passive mana regen when you reach the 250 threshold.

More movement speed on Janna equals more damage, meaning Celerity is an invaluable, and must have rune, on Janna. It synergizes well with her passive, and her Zephyr.

Scorch is used for early game, laning harass. It adds extra damage on your first ability used, and then again after the 10s cooldown. The extra damage can't be missed when using Zephyr due to it being targeted, so abuse this in lane for extra presence and poke.

Taste of Blood helps to provide you sustain in lane, and pairs well with our primary rune choices to give Zephyr maximum effectiveness during laning phase.

Relentless Hunter provides Janna with a huge boost her movement speed at maximum stacks. It synergizes well with her passive, and her Zephyr. Combine that with Mobility Boots, and you can be faster than Rammus!

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Boots of Mobility > MOVEMENT SPEED With Janna's passive and Zephyr, Mobility Boots is a great pick up, she will be one of the fastest champions in the game, helping catch people out and sticking close to her allies. Boots of Swiftness > SLOW RESIST If the enemy team has a lot of slows, you can trade Mobi's out for these. They offer 60 movement speed and 25% slow resistance. Ionian Boots of Lucidity > CDR If you're wanting to have a little bit more CDR, you can take these boots, helps with getting your abilities out quicker, and reducing the CD on your summoner spells by 10%.

Imperial Mandate > DAMAGE/UTILITY Janna focuses on doing damage with her Zephyr, making Imperial Mandate a core item in its current state, as the slow applies a mark to the enemy, which ally champions can trigger, dealing extra damage and granting you and the triggering ally movement speed. You also gain AP, ability haste and mana regen, along with empowering your other legendary items with an extra 15 ability power.

Redemption > CDR/HP+MANA REGEN/SUSTAIN Redemption offers an aoe heal in an area, adding a health sustain for her allies outside of Monsoon, or on top of. It also offers HP and Mana regen, meaning you can stay in the fights longer, recall less, and you can help out even while dead. It also offers an extra 10% shielding power, which synergizes with your Eye of the Storm.

Ardent Censer > DAMAGE/UTILITY/CDR If you have a team comp that relies heavily on fast auto attacks such as Vayne, Kindred, Quinn etc. Ardent Censer is a great pickup to maximize your carries damage output while shielding them, it also offers you a bit more burst and mana sustain.

Zhonya's Hourglass > UTILITY/SURVIVABILITY/DAMAGE If the enemy team has a lot of burst damage threats, you can take Zhonya's Hourglass to keep yourself alive longer, or negate damage spells such as Zed's Death Mark or Ignite. It can spell the difference between living or dying, you also gain a nice chunk of AP for your burst damage, 45 armor and CDR.

Mikael's Crucible > SURVIVABILITY/CDR/UTILITY A good pick when facing an enemy team with hard CC that you need to Cleanse on allies, such as Impale, Dark Binding, Cocoon etc and grants the target a small heal upon use. Increases your Mana and HP regeneration, while granting you 50 magic resist, and 20% shielding power - good synergy with Eye of the Storm.

Moonstone Renewer > UTILITY/DAMAGE Slightly lackluster at the moment, this item provides us with a bit extra damage, ability haste and much needed mana regen. It also provides a smart heal to the lowest health ally when you affect champions with abilities while in combat. Each second spent in combat increases this healing effect up to 150%. This also empowers our other legendary items with 5 ability haste.

Staff of Flowing Water > UTILITY/MANA If your team has many AP users, Staff of Flowing Water can be using for granting them up to 40 ability power, and bonus movement speed for 3 seconds after healing or shielding them. You also gain mana regen, ability power and heal and shield power.

You'll most likely want to start with Zephyr, as your Eye of the Storm has a rather long cooldown and unless you get invaded, or are going up against an aggressive lane ( Draven, Nautilus, Brand) that can all-in you level 1, it's better to start with a bit of poke and harass.


You'll want to utilize your autoattacks in lane, due to the extra damage your passive gives you, and once you level up Eye of the Storm, you can protect yourself from damage (if you're under no threat of a gank, or being engaged on, due to the long cooldown), and increase your AD to add extra poke.

You'll be engaging using Howling Gale charged up for less than 1s, primarily for the knockup, from melee range - it gives the enemies no time to react in dodging it. You can also use Zephyr to slow them, giving them less time to react to a longer charge.

Make sure not to waste your Howling Gale if you think you might be engaged on soon, as it's knock up is your primary disengage tool, as well as engage. You can use it to interrupt dashes such as Lee Sin's Sonic Wave or Leona's Zenith Blade.


Mid - Late game your job is to disengage, peel, and protect your teams main damage threats. Other than positioning for a defensive Monsoon during teamfights, you most likely want to be at the backline with your ADC - so you can quickly knock up or slow an enemy threat that's diving onto them.
If you can be sure no one is going to engage on your ADC, or are otherwise occupied, you can throw a Howling Gale into the middle of the enemies, potentially setting up for a multiple enemy Last Breath if you have a Yasuo, or interrupting someone else's channeled ability!

The main thing to be aware of, is making sure your teams threats stay alive, while removing, or zoning, the enemy teams threats.

You'll want to be sticking close to your ADC, while roaming efficiently and safely as possible to place deep wards. You have the advantage of high movement speed on your side, use it!

Control Ward's are a staple part of any support, both to deny your enemies vision, and to provide your team extra vision. You should make sure to buy one at least every time you back, preferably to have 2 on you at all times.

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