Talk:Janna/@comment-3578129-20140805114921/@comment-12314620-20140805170552

Well my own opinion is that supports theoretically have access to only 5 item slots, since even if you have extra gold to reach "full build" always carrying a pinkward around is kinda mandatory. Now Sighstone and an gold item are also pretty much core items that you must get if you want to play support efficiently. Although skipping boots is an option as Janna I personally like to get them to have more overall map presence and quicker access to more dangerous areas of the map to provide vision with deep wards.

The remaining 2 item slots I personally prefer using for Michaels if adc is getting bursted or/and they have very dangerous hard cc such as Fiddles fear, Rammus taunt, Ashe arrow, heck I even find myself using it cleanse Nasus slow quite often, Locket against heavy aoe teamcomps where surviving the initial burst without casualties practically wins the game, Censer for situations where I feel confident that my carries can survive with the peel I can already provide even in most dangerous conditions or Twin Shadows for situations where you feel that getting flanked is a great threat or getting ambushed is the biggest threat for your victory.

I personally don't feel like having 2-3 (if you skip boots) item slots of AP items without additional utility aside of what it contributes through champions scalings are worth forfeitting the extra utility provided by "support items". The AP items that are most effective to increase utility through sheer AP tend to include Needlesly large rod which is too expensive to pick up by a support unless the game is silly in kills in which case getting it is rather a "winmore item" than a valid pickup. Aside of Death Cap the rest of AP itemisation is rather lackluster on Janna drop utility pickups such as Twin Shadows or Ardent Censer (Zhonya active makes even less sense than Frozen Hearth, DFG is just as stupid pickup, Morellonomicon might be somewhat decent but I don't find 80 AP and again stupid passive for Janna make it worth picking over utility item, Athenes doesn't provide enough ap to justify and many of the stats are wasted, Banner is something I'd want to use more often because the active has potentian in soloQ but spending gold on the passive for Janna is something I can't justify in 98% of the cases, WoTa has lots of gold spent on wasted stats, Liandry is expensive and again: wasted stats since you can't reliably proc the passive and Mpen is wasted stat on Janna, Rylais as well means you spend lots of gold to wasted stats...) Finally dropping boots for another AP item means that your build becomes more expensive which is a luxury supports can't afford in most games.