User blog comment:Fistful of Force/Nami is actually a really good support/@comment-5571637-20130119142239

onestly:

nami's q: Aoe stun

janna's q: linear Aoe knockup, fast enough that is very difficult to doge

nami's w: random heal/harras (and i cannot say anything bad to this)

janna's w: harass AND slow, if on cooldown, you are faster then pantheon and can ignore unit collision

nami's e: for the next three attack, you (or ally) deal additional magic damage, a nice amount, and slow enemy

janna's e: for the next 5 seconds you grant a HUGE shiled (240+90%ap at rank 5) and a free bastard sword....boosting all of your damage outpout if ad caster (pantheon, talon)

nami's ultimate: grat initiation and escaping tool, deal nice damage and can disable the entire team (like a shorter amumu ult)

janna's ultimate: you push away anyone and massive heal your team (600 + 140% ap at rank 3). is only useful for escaping, not for chasing, but you can use flash in the middle of their team and if well positioned, you can caught everyone off position. but, especially, with only a rabadon you can heal 810 to the entire team, granting continuos push and reversing the combat

nami's passive: when you hit an ally with your ability, your grant 30 additional movement speed.

janna's passive: as long as you're alive, all of you're allies have +3% move speed

they're very similar but not equal (thanks to god!) and both of them have nice kit, but i use janna before nami and i think is much much more viable then nami (i tried nami too), but, of course, no one can match taric right now, with a powerful heal, armor aura (and armor reduction), sigle target that never miss stun, and a massive ad&ap aura buff (35 ad bonus to the whole team? destroy that turret)

at the end, i think many people think janna and nami are too similar, and many used janna much before nami so, why expend 975 rp/6300 ip just for a champion that is very similar to one that i already have?

i'm not talking like a adc player or a mage player, my main role is support