Janna vs Soraka — Support Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Janna against Soraka · 49.67% win rate over 2,418 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Soraka is favoured — Soraka owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Janna's 3. Play it patient and win your windows. Janna wins 49.67% of games vs Soraka in support (2,418 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1SorakaSoraka's Starcall self-heal and silence win the level-1 poke war outright.
Level 2SorakaAt level 2 her Q slow and W heal out-trade your chip damage, so she stays ahead.
Level 3SorakaHer level-3 sustain lets her heal through everything your Zephyr can do.
Levels 4-5SorakaThrough 4-5 she keeps out-healing your poke, so the early lane belongs to her.
Level 6JannaAt 6 Monsoon out-sustains Wish and enables a dive, swinging the matchup to you.
First itemJannaYour first-item shield burst-mitigation beats her raw regen and lets you all-in.
Two+ itemsJannaLate, forcing fast all-ins through her silence out-tempos her heals, keeping you ahead.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Soraka owns levels 1-4: her Starcall self-heal and Q silence let her win every extended poke exchange, and your Zephyr chip is negated by her Astral Infusion, so play back and last-hit safely.

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The full Janna vs Soraka report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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