Best Janna Build Guide | Runes | Spells | Items in League of Legends

Janna is a support champion in LoL whose abilities are somewhat complicated to use for beginners, but in the hands of those League of Legends players who have put more time into playing with her, Janna is quite annoying. With her unpredictable CC, shielding, and healing, she can be the doom of the enemy team if they underestimate her, and in this section, we'll go over her best builds.

Best Janna Build

The best Janna build boils down to a support who’s there to provide shields and buffs, and of course, bother the enemy team as much as possible thanks to her magic damage and her “Q” ability. When playing Janna support you want to be careful since she resists very little damage.

Best Janna Runes

Her best runes in League of Legends are the “Inspiration” rune set and “Resolve”. For the Inspiration rune tree, the Keystone “Glacial Augment” will grant overall Crowd Control in the bottom lane, or other lanes as well. For the rest of the rune slots “Magical Footwear”, “Biscuit Delivery”, and “Cosmic Insight” will give you the sustain you need in the laning phase.

Best Rune Path	Inspiration	Resolve
Best Keystone	Glacial Augment
Best Slot 1 (Rune)	Magical Footwear	Font of Life
Best Slot 2 (Rune)	Biscuit Delivery
Best Slot 3 (Rune)	Cosmic Insight	Revitalize

For her second rune path, “Font of Life” from the “Resolve” tree will be the little help she needs to heal her ADC in the early game, the second keystone would be “Revitalize” which will strengthen your shields and heals.

Best Janna Rune Shards

The best Rune Shards for Janna, starting with “Offense”, would be CDR, which stands for “Cool Down Reduction”, followed by “Adaptive Force” as a “Flex”, finishing with “Armor” in the “Defense” spot.

BEST RUNE SHARDS	EFFECT
Offense	+1 - 10% Cool Down Reduction (Based on Level)
Flex	+9 Adaptive Force
Defense	+6 Armor

Some may think because of her ability power the "Sorcery" tree rune tree would be on the best Janna runes section, but she benefits more from "Resolve".

Best Janna Spells

Janna’s best summoner spells in League of Legends are “Flash” and “Ignite”, and one would think “Heal” could be one of the best summoner spells for her than “Ignite”, but the extra damage when you play Janna and her auto attack, could set the difference when getting officially involved in a fight.

BEST SPELLS	ICON
Flash
Ignite

Flash, as almost always, is a must-have in a champion, it will help you get out of tricky situations.

Best Janna Abilities Order

Janna’s best skill order focuses on protecting your ADC and slowing down enemy champions while using her "Howling Gale" as a threat. However, your first ability in your skill order should be “Howling Gale”, followed up by “Eye of the Storm”, and “Zephyr”, which should be the order for the first 3 levels.

At levels 4, 5, and 7, focus on leveling up your “Eye of the Storm”, unlocking your ultimate at level 6. From level 8 to 13 focus on maximizing your “Zephyr”, “Eye of the Storm”, and “R”, being your first ability “Howling Gale” the last to fully complete in the skill order.

Best Janna Items

Best Janna Starter Items

Janna’s first support item build consists of “Spellthief’s Edge”, a couple of “Health Potions”, and a “Stealth Ward”. The first item is key for her to stack up gold since she’s a support, while the “Health Potions” are meant to keep her alive since she’s quite weak, finally, use the “Stealth Ward” to avoid any surprises by having vision.

IRST ITEM	SECOND ITEM	THIRD ITEM	FOURTH ITEM
Spellthief’s Edge	Health Potion	Health Potion	Stealth Ward

Best Mid Game Janna Items

By minute 15, you should have on your Janna support these support items: “Shard of True Ice”, “Ionian Boots of Lucidity”, and the “Moonstone Renewer”, giving you enough ability haste to cast your skills at a decent rate.

FIRST ITEM	SECOND ITEM	THIRD ITEM
Shard of True Ice	Ionian Boots of Lucidity	Moonstone Renewer

The “Moonstone Renewer” will be the mythic item to go for out of the many mythic items there are available for Janna, also, thanks to the runes mentioned above, you will be able to save some gold for the boots of your item build.

Best Final Late Game Janna Items 

The final items in the Janna build are meant to fully support your team with healing and shielding, the damage won’t be her strong point, but she will definitely keep her teammates alive.

FIRST ITEM	SECOND ITEM	THIRD ITEM	FOURTH ITEM	FIFTH ITEM	SIXTH ITEM
Shard of True Ice	Ionian Boots of Lucidity	Moonstone Renewer	Chemtech Putrifier	Redemption	Ardent Censer

“Redemption” is excellent in this item build of patch 12.13, while “Ardent Censer” and “Chemtech Putrifier” are great as well. As a situational item, you can go for "Staff of flowing" depending on what you need.

Best Champions to pair Janna with

Janna has a high win rate with these ADCs who have high damage to engage in fights as she shields them.

CHAMPION	WIN RATE %	ICON
Draven	55.9%
Tristana	55.9%
Ashe	55.9%

Strongest Champions against Janna

These champions do represent a menace to Janna in the current patch 12.13, especially Amumu, thanks to his high resistance.

CHAMPION	WIN RATE %	ICON
Amumu	44.2%
Sonna	47.0%
Taric	48.1%

Weakest Champions against Janna

These champions do represent a menace to Janna, especially Brand, thanks to his high damage.

CHAMPION	WIN RATE %	ICON
Brand	58.5%
Swain	58.5%
Leona	58.2%

Overall, Janna is an excellent support, for new players or those who just don’t know how she works, they might throw hate at Riot Games because of her design, but only a true Janna main knows the value of this character, and her potential to be the reason a game is won.