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Janna still has her uses. Her ult is still the ultimate teamfight disengage, her passive is still very powerful, her Q is still one of the best support skills in the game. When I say Janna's bad, that's shorthand for "Janna is generally not as good as most other supports except in the specific instance of facing an AoE team comp, at which she is awesome but that situation does not crop up very often".

And similarly, while Sona is overall very strong, there are situations where you wouldn't want to take her. Versus Kat and Nunu I'd want Alistar or Taric. Versus winmore tops like Irelia or Jax, or for general teamfight control, I'd want Lulu. Versus hypercarries like Kog and Vayne I'd want Blitz or Leona to really curbstomp them early, or Lulu to neutralise them late. The problem with Sona is this: if these champs are 9 or 10/10 at these specific roles and 5/10 at everything else, Sona is at least a 7 or 8/10 at everything.

It's the curse of the jack of all trades in this game - the more things you do, the harder you are to balance. Either you're too weak overall to really stand out, or you're so versatile that there's no reason you wouldn't get used.

I'd say Lulu is the real reason Janna's not seeing much play at the moment. Sona's an allrounder, whereas Janna is a teamfight specialist, and in that she's pretty much beaten outright by Lulu - Lulu has more/better control on shorter cooldowns, and her ult is much more versatile than Janna's. 

I know it doesn't help that Sona is better, but Lulu almost entirely occupies Janna's nice.

Like someone else said, the Tribunal isn't necessarily about racism or cursing or having an offense name. People look at it, think "gee, do I ever want to play with this douchebag?" and click pardon/punish accordingly. You insulted people, were unco-operative and generally unpleasant. So... yeah. Suck it up.

Criminally little mention of Lulu in this thread. Lulu's ability to control teamfights and lock down critical targets is insane. Sona's easier, and at least as good, but Lulu brings a whole different bag of tricks to the party. Not to be underestimated.

Why have shields and heals in mid when your support does that for 0 farm and you could stick Kennen/Morgana/Orianna/etc etc mid, have all of Karma's damage and benefit from the mass CC as well? She's not a good value proposition at the moment. She works, but she's so niche, and there are so many caveats to that, and the team comp has to be so specific, that she's not really worth bothering with as an AP mid. As a 0cs support she is just objectively bad.

In blind pick I start boots and two wards against Blitz, pretty much no matter the support. The cost of getting grabbed is too high to not do everything you can to avoid it. This is similarly the reason I always take flash in blind - in draft, if I'm playing Lulu, I'll take Exhaust and Heal unless I'm against Blitz (or to a lesser extent Leona and Alistar), in which case I'll sacrifice heal for flash. The consequences of losing your focus and getting hit by a grab, sword or combo are just way too great to do anything else.

Hooo boy. This game is going to be unrecognisable.

They did balance Blitz's grab. They called it Dredge Line and they gave it to Nautilus.

I thought QSS already failed to remove the damage portion of Warwick and Malz' ults. I know it doesn't remove the tether from Malz' in any case.

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Blitz has been literally the same damn character for like 3 years. Now people are finally finding him to be good? I remember playing him ONCE and realizing that potential.

It always annoys me when people say this. He really hasn't. Back when base mp5 was much lower and the cost on his Q was much higher, using Rocket Grab was much higher risk. At level 1 it cost something like 2/5 of your mana. It led to people starting Sapphire Crystal and rushing Sheen just to be able to use his Q more than twice without going b. In those days it was worth it to dance around him, try and bait him into using his Q, because if he did and missed, he'd have no recourse. Now the skill is cheaper and he regens that mana in no time. THAT'S why he's prominent now.

It's also worth noting that Blitz was designed in the days when he would still have been expected to last hit as a reasonably squishy melee, hence why he has skills like Mana Barrier and Overdrive. He's not OP as a concept, or even OP as a champ really, but I *do* think he's OP as a 0cs support in the current meta.