Your first ten games on Janna: a smurf opener
A ten-game plan for Janna on a fresh account — the abilities to drill, the real cooldowns to respect, and the habit that costs the most games.
Why Janna on a new account
A new account gives you ten normal games before ranked opens. That is the only stretch where you can misplay Janna at no cost to your rating, and most players spend it on autopilot.
Janna is a support whose job in a fight is to make somebody else win a lane, then convert map presence into objectives. 550 attack range means Janna wins by not being where the fight is. Spacing is the whole skill, not a detail of it.
Janna is mana-gated, which is the real limit on how often you can contest a wave early.
Drill these, in this order
Tailwind
Janna's allies gain Move Speed moving towards her. Janna deals a portion of bonus Move Speed as bonus magic damage on hit and with Zephyr.
Howling Gale
By creating a localized change in pressure and temperature, Janna is able to create a small storm that grows in size with time. She can activate the spell again to release the storm. On release this storm will fly towards the direction it was cast in, dealing damage and knocking away any enemies in its path.
Zephyr
Janna summons an air elemental that passively increases her Move Speed and enables her to pass through units. She may also activate this ability to deal damage and slow an enemy's Move Speed.
Eye Of The Storm
Janna conjures a defensive gale that shields an ally champion or turret from incoming damage and increases their Attack Damage.
Monsoon
Janna surrounds herself in a magical storm, throwing enemies back. After the storm has settled, soothing winds heal nearby allies while the ability is active.
Skill order, and how to reason about it
Take Monsoon at levels 6, 11 and 16 — the ultimate is always worth the point it costs.
For the basic abilities, Eye Of The Storm (E) gains the most from being ranked: its cooldown falls by 4 seconds between rank 1 and max, which is the largest improvement in the kit. That is the usual argument for maxing it first.
This is reasoning from the cooldown data, not a win-rate ranking — a matchup that punishes you can invert it.
- Q · Howling Gale — cooldown 14s
- W · Zephyr — cooldown 8/7.5/7/6.5/6s, improving by 2s across its ranks
- E · Eye Of The Storm — cooldown 16/15/14/13/12s, improving by 4s across its ranks
Games one to four: last-hitting only
Do not look for kills. Farm, and watch the cooldown figures above — a support that walks up with its main ability down is giving away a free trade, and at rank one those cooldowns are at their longest.
Ranged last-hitting under tower is its own skill, and these are the games to practise it deliberately.
Games five to ten: trading patterns
Now use the cooldowns. The recurring error for this class is watching the lane instead of the map — it never feels like a mistake in the moment, which is exactly why it survives into ranked.
Riot's own notes on playing Janna
These are the designers' words, not ours — the tips shipped in the client for Janna.
- Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
- Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
- Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
What the stat line does between level 1 and 18
| Stat | Level 1 | Level 18 |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 570 | 2100 |
| Attack damage | 47 | 47 |
| Armour | 28 | 104.5 |
| Magic resist | 30 | 52.1 |
Movement speed 325 and attack range 550 do not grow with levels — they are the two numbers that stay true all game.
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