Janna is kicking up the meta
Despite the fact that the current season 12 has only been about one month, there have been a number of concerns about the meta. One typical champion has arrived to shake up the top lane meta in an unusual approach.
According to U.GG, in patch 12.2, Smite Janna Top has around 58% win rate in high elo, which includes ranks above or equivalent to Master. Janna has made the best use of the “support smite top” meta because to her fast movement speed and perhaps the recent changes to her mini-rework.
LCS podcast once talked about this issue and how it is becoming a hot trend for high-elo players.
Using Smite in the top lane is the newest trick for tricking League’s rebound mechanisms into awarding extra gold to your team.
The concept of a support playing top with Smite entails fully using Objective Bounties, a new mechanism introduced around the preseason. By neglecting the top lane and continually roaming and ganking other lanes, this strategy nearly assures those objective bounties will stack for your team, despite the fact that you are not truly far behind owing to your champion that doesn’t rely much on items.
Karma is another champion who can also exploit this strategy, as they all have ways to kite their enemies, which is an essential part of harassing. Janna, in particular, has been crushing with this new role, resulting in an almost 60% win rate at high elo.
Nonetheless, it’s still a risky strategy, creating a false loss by interfering with the bounty system isn’t a good one to develop in terms of gameplay, especially when you are a low-elo player.