Talk:Janna/@comment-4842500-20120609201352/@comment-206.28.38.227-20120610041614

Well, I think there's two main reasons for the whole "AP Janna must be bad" attitude.

First, it's kind of a shock tactic. In this same tournament I was watching a Dignitas game where they top-laned their support and AD carry and sent their bruiser to bot, and it worked for them mainly because it's such an unusual tactic in the current meta it threw their opponents off their game. Its effectiveness lies in the fact that few people do it.

Second, I think most people play Janna very passively. Not sure if it's because they come to Janna after playing supports like Soraka and Sona that are more introverted or what, but it seems like I'm constantly being called out in games for playing a very aggressive Janna like it's an extremely unusual thing. I harass a lot, use Howling Gale + Zephyr to initiate fights, flash into team fights and Monsoon to peel off juicy targets for the carries. Most Janna players seem to just want to hang back and shield people, and use most of their abilities defensively (breaking up chases or just blindly shielding whoever's low) and that playstyle doesn't suit itself toward AP Janna builds.

AP Janna is viable given the right playstyle and the right comp against the right opponents, but it's pretty situational and is very much a high-risk, high-reward option. It's not exactly "playing the percentages".