User blog comment:ClariS/The Ideal ARAM Team/@comment-3308937-20130504041302


 * Can build a pure AP squishy nuking build or go for a more tank-killing/utility build with rylai's/liandry's. She has good poke with her long range spells and plants.  She's great at helping initiate a fight or disengaging from one with her 2 AoE CCs in the form of her root and knockup up.  She's amazing at catching someone who's out of place or helping save an out of place ally with her E+slowing plants.  She can clear,  and s from brushes and health relics giving her team the edge when it comes to map control, especially with her seeds and plants giving vision and having no cost.


 * Gotta get dem heals. Since my team is pretty AoE and poke oriented it makes perfect sense to have Sona in it.  I always build a bulwark on my Sona, regardless of whether I'm going pure aura bitch or going AP, it is incredible when combined with her W and gives her a bit of bulk to be able to take a hit.  If she is going for auras locket+bulwark with her W just makes her even crazier.  Her poke is good, even when not building AP with her Q, she's good at disengaging and engaging with her movespeed E and her heal is self-explanatory.  The ult is, as with Zyra, great at initiating, locking down, disengaging and turning fights around.


 * Best lockdown tank imo. Her ult's range (over galio, amumu), AoE (over nautilus) and precision (over sej and amumu) combined with precise and fast lockdown combos (compared to Naut's slow clunky combos) are what make her fit into this team better than other tanks. Her straight up initiation is usually weaker than say Galio, Sej and Amumu in a 5v5 teamfight but she's an amazing secondary initiation or a great setup for other initiation/lockdown skills which this team can work with fantastically.  She's pumps out a ton of damage throughout a fight with her good bases and amazing passive and has innate tankiness that is only rivaled by Rammus.


 * AoE lockdown ult that has great synergy with the rest of the team, % damage to deal with tanks who can survive this team's initial burst, great poke, good disengage between ult + AoE slow E and great AoE damage.


 * Janna is, imo, one of the strongest and most influential champions on this map and also one of the most underrated by a lot of champions. She is the queen of disengaging with her 2 AoE CCs in Q and R, passive team-wide mspeed boost, strong single-target slow and shield.  These things also make her great at the poke game with her Q being good at not only damaging the enemies but making it easier for her teammates to land their long range pokes, her shield being able to block a good deal of harass with its high base value and extremely high ratio and her large AoE heal in her ultimate keeping her team going.  She works well in this team by doing a bit of everything, she helps Sona in sustaining the team, she helps Leona by shielding her with has synergy with her high armor/mres steroid, she helps Varus by being able to help him kite enemies by slowing them and knocking them around and she helps Zyra by using her ult and Q to keep people in Zyra's ult and within distance of her plants.