Talk:Janna/@comment-33536623-20150507001025/@comment-3308937-20150507024936

Part of it is the tank meta, three big reasons she does well against tanks are:

1. She can reliably interrupt a lot of tanks' gap closers with either Q or ult. Compared to most assassins/divers who have 2 gap closers, like Zed (W + untargetable R), LeBlanc (W+R), Akali (Rx3), Fizz (E+Q), Vi (Q+unstoppable R), and J4 (EQ + unstoppable R), tanks generally only have 1 for Janna to have to counter to keep her back-line safe.

2. Sustained AoE damage is up and single target burst is down. Tanks bring a lot of persistent AoE damage with cinderhulk and their innate abilities which is great for Janna. Without having to worry about multiple champs bursting down her carry in a second and with damage being more spread out than before she can really use her ult's huge AoE heal to its fullest. In addition to getting the most out of her ult her shields are usually up for longer and as a result her carry gets more out of the ad steroid. This leads us into the final point:

3. Teamfights are back to being more traditional with front lines and back lines. Janna works best when she isn't the only one protecting her carry and when the carry isn't the only one she's supporting. During the assassin/dive meta teamfights were more hectic with no real front lines for teams leaving Janna to fend for herself against multiple threats which isn't really the best scenario for Janna since she's light on CC and her shield isn't that great against high burst damage, she couldn't really join in on killing the enemy adc either due to not having reliable hard CC, having low damage, and being so squishy.

She just simply wasn't up to the task compared to other supports. For protecting your adc Nami, Thresh, and Morg were better and for joining in on the diving you had Leona and Annie. She wasn't horrible by any means but there were just better options out there.