So Riot decides to give me the sexiest janna skin ever (she has clothes O.O), three weeks ago. We are now 3 weeks later, with a new season patch and loads of changes and an out meta'd Janna. No I'm not complaining about the eye bleeding HUD, nor am I crying about how broken certain champs are, I am talking about Janna... The Storm's Fury. Janna has been and should have always been my main.
Current meta for "supports (what it seems like)
-Bursty
-Tanky
-Pokey
-NOT PASSIVE (yea soraka....you are ****ed too)
Janna has practically none of those
What she does have are
-The best disengage in the world
-And a huge packet of CC, a nerfed knockup, a sad slow, and a wtf ult
-a shield that increases both damage and survivability
but guess what...my square peg ain't going to fit the current meta. Her unique skillset makes her too "weak" in the early game phase to make her a viable support. Some people might be saying that I am playing the game wrong or whatnot, but I assure you...just play a decent game with her and you will understand. She simply lacks the UMPH that other supports give. It used to be, that her ability to crowd control teams would carry her in the mid/late game (at the cost of some problems early game), but this is now possible due to the fact that her early game has been completely ruined.
Here's why!
Janna has always been the pride of supports that do not need items to operate at what you can call "full potential". A good Janna, back in the day could play with just teir one boots and those boots alone, and you would be just as "effective" in terms of dishing out crowd control. She could "do with less" and buy more wards, and guess what... wards are what wins games. Oh but Riot patched that and gave us an item that gave us a free 3 wards on the map. Big whoop! Trying to control the map with only 3 wards in your pocket (well technically 5) is like trying to hold water in your hands.
From what I have seen for the past few days, the league of supports has turned into something like Sona and Taric only. Non-traditional supports have no means of sustaining their adc and in the early game in particular, the amount of damage that Sona/Taric(his stun instigates a lot of damage in this sense) can dish is on par with something like ashe, gp, lux, ect. Leona is still Leona, I haven't seen her that much...probably because she would camouflage with your HUD. Alistar is badass as usual, has not changed since season 1. Blitzcrank has become more viable, but hey...he gets banned out every single game anyways for being a pub stomper.
I didn't cry when you nerfed my tornado a few months back. I learned to charge my tornado before hitting people. I didn't cry when you nerfed my ult a few months back, I just learned to conserve it for the real stuff that mattered. But this stuff is just ridiculous. No you didn't nerf Janna, you made her unplayable.
I will not quit this game. I will have to find bigger and better (in terms of fitting the meta, Janna is numero uno forever in my book) supports. But may this rest heavily on you Riot. You have hurt the heart of one person in this world. Perhaps more to come...as people realize their beloved Janna is no longer viable.
The real reason why I hate this situation is that you gave a skin as a reward for dedication to the game, only to throw her out three weeks later.
WHY RIOT? How haveth I sinned against thee? For what reason haveth I received thy punishment?
tl;dr janna is currently unplayable....I am mad because they gave me a skin and now I will basically never see it in the light of day again.
CLG.na ran Janna yesterday in a victory over Dignitas in the MLG Prizefight. [deleted, see below for reason]
edit: Ok ok you guys are right. This match clearly wasn't an indication of anything "meta-wise." I don't do balance or anything, so I was just observing what I saw in one of the first pro games since the preseason changes. if it matters, I really want Janna to be a support mainstay too since she's one of my favorites.
Janna is out meta'd
So Riot decides to give me the sexiest janna skin ever (she has clothes O.O), three weeks ago. We are now 3 weeks later, with a new season patch and loads of changes and an out meta'd Janna. No I'm not complaining about the eye bleeding HUD, nor am I crying about how broken certain champs are, I am talking about Janna... The Storm's Fury. Janna has been and should have always been my main.
Current meta for "supports (what it seems like)
-Bursty
-Tanky
-Pokey
-NOT PASSIVE (yea soraka....you are ****ed too)
Janna has practically none of those
What she does have are
-The best disengage in the world
-And a huge packet of CC, a nerfed knockup, a sad slow, and a wtf ult
-a shield that increases both damage and survivability
but guess what...my square peg ain't going to fit the current meta. Her unique skillset makes her too "weak" in the early game phase to make her a viable support. Some people might be saying that I am playing the game wrong or whatnot, but I assure you...just play a decent game with her and you will understand. She simply lacks the UMPH that other supports give. It used to be, that her ability to crowd control teams would carry her in the mid/late game (at the cost of some problems early game), but this is now possible due to the fact that her early game has been completely ruined.
Here's why!
Janna has always been the pride of supports that do not need items to operate at what you can call "full potential". A good Janna, back in the day could play with just teir one boots and those boots alone, and you would be just as "effective" in terms of dishing out crowd control. She could "do with less" and buy more wards, and guess what... wards are what wins games. Oh but Riot patched that and gave us an item that gave us a free 3 wards on the map. Big whoop! Trying to control the map with only 3 wards in your pocket (well technically 5) is like trying to hold water in your hands.
From what I have seen for the past few days, the league of supports has turned into something like Sona and Taric only. Non-traditional supports have no means of sustaining their adc and in the early game in particular, the amount of damage that Sona/Taric(his stun instigates a lot of damage in this sense) can dish is on par with something like ashe, gp, lux, ect. Leona is still Leona, I haven't seen her that much...probably because she would camouflage with your HUD. Alistar is badass as usual, has not changed since season 1. Blitzcrank has become more viable, but hey...he gets banned out every single game anyways for being a pub stomper.
I didn't cry when you nerfed my tornado a few months back. I learned to charge my tornado before hitting people. I didn't cry when you nerfed my ult a few months back, I just learned to conserve it for the real stuff that mattered. But this stuff is just ridiculous. No you didn't nerf Janna, you made her unplayable.
I will not quit this game. I will have to find bigger and better (in terms of fitting the meta, Janna is numero uno forever in my book) supports. But may this rest heavily on you Riot. You have hurt the heart of one person in this world. Perhaps more to come...as people realize their beloved Janna is no longer viable.
The real reason why I hate this situation is that you gave a skin as a reward for dedication to the game, only to throw her out three weeks later.
WHY RIOT? How haveth I sinned against thee? For what reason haveth I received thy punishment?
tl;dr janna is currently unplayable....I am mad because they gave me a skin and now I will basically never see it in the light of day again.
edit: Ok ok you guys are right. This match clearly wasn't an indication of anything "meta-wise." I don't do balance or anything, so I was just observing what I saw in one of the first pro games since the preseason changes. if it matters, I really want Janna to be a support mainstay too since she's one of my favorites.
That match in no way says anything about what the meta might look like when things settle down.
That said, it's probably a little early to be talking about what is/isn't in the meta at all don't you think?