Talk:Janna/@comment-173.71.11.71-20120416212339/@comment-87.100.153.13-20120418143357

Janna just wasn't as good as other supports were before their nerfs, for two reasons:

1) Their poke worked well against Janna (no way to heal it back) (Sona, mostly)

2) Their heal was powerful enough to outsustain the damage trades that Janna and her lane partner did (mostly the deal with Soraka)

For example, if you took pre-nerf Sona vs. Janna lanes, you could poke Janna and her carry down so easily that they'd have to go back constantly. Vs. Soraka you just couldn't trade well enough because of her infinite mana and heals. Now Sona's poke is nerfed and Soraka no longer has infinite mana. Although Sona's power chord was buffed to almost the same level it was, her auras are still nerfed and those were quite significant as well considering that they gave quite a bit of AD at level 1.

I don't know what Elo you are but I'd still rather have a healing support as my lane partner at lower Elo because bad Sona/Soraka/Taric still usually heal you at least sometimes but having a bad Janna means you auto-lose the lane. It's also much harder to be a good enough Janna than good enough Sona or Soraka.