Johanna Build Guide “The Crusade marches on!”

Johanna is a low-mobility, extremely resilient Tank, capable of Blinding, Slowing, Stunning, and briefly Pulling enemies. She excels at creating chaos and disruption in the midst of the enemy team for extended periods of time while also peeling for her allies. Johanna is one of the handful of Heroes in the game with no direct counters, and is able to fit into nearly any team composition.

Strengths

• High durability
• Solid crowd control
• Good waveclear
• Access to Blinds
• Ability to interrupt
• Access to Unstoppable

Weaknesses

• Low damage
• No tools to handle high-mobility Heroes
• Low mobility

Shield Glare Build

Recommended

Level 1

Level 4 ? ?

Level 7 ? ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ?

Level 16

Level 20 ? ? ?

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Johanna's Shield Glare Build boosts your defensive capabilities, both for allied Heroes and for yourself, in various ways: more Blinds right at the start of the game and increased self-sustain in the late game.

With the help of the extra charge coming from Zealous Glare at Level 1, when possible, try to hit multiple enemy Heroes with Shield Glare in order to get more healing and cooldown reduction from Holy Renewal at Level 16 and, if you have it, more protection and cooldown reduction from Blinded By The Light at Level 20.

When playing as Solo Laner, go for Eternal Retaliation at Level 4 to improve your waveclear and Falling Sword to boost your damage.

Punish Build

Beginner

Level 1

Level 4 ? ?

Level 7 ? ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ?

Level 16 ?

Level 20 ? ? ?

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Johanna's Punish Build is designed to make yourself more durable by increasing your self-sustain right at the start of the game and to empower your disruption capabilities in the late game.

When playing as Solo Laner, go for Eternal Retaliation at Level 4 to improve your waveclear and Falling Sword to boost your damage.

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Johanna synergizes with

Johanna pairs extremely well with Heroes that can follow up her slow but powerful engage with any kind of area of effect Ability to deal burst damage to enemy Heroes and/or to crowd control them.

Due to her weak engage when her Heroic Ability is not available, Johanna greatly benefits from Heroes that can help her with that in the 4-man (such as Maiev) and/or from the solo lane (for example Blaze).

Johanna is countered by

Johanna is one of the few Heroes in the game that has no natural counters. She cannot be bursted quickly by Assassins, or crowd controlled by Supports or Tanks, due to Iron Skin. However, this does not mean she is overpowered or always a good pick to have on your team. Johanna is instead countered by playstyle, such as ignoring her in team fights or targeting her while Iron Skin is on cooldown. Johanna also lacks good mobility and has no gap-closers, meaning that she can be kited very effectively and has difficulty keeping up with dive-heavy allies. The only Hero we would currently consider to be a "counter" to Johanna is Varian due to his Shattering Throw talent at Level 13, which allows him to shatter both Johanna's Iron Skin and her Indestructible talent at Level 20.

Johanna's stronger maps

Johanna's average maps

Johanna's weaker maps

Johanna is a solid pick on all Maps, but performs better on medium-sized Battlegrounds that favor early game rotations with tons of waveclear (such as Tomb of the Spider Queen) and worse on most 2-lane Maps as well as Maps with wide empty areas (such as Hanamura Temple).

• Damage and Slow adjacent enemies with Punish.
• Condemn can interrupt abilities like Muradin's Dwarf Toss or E.T.C.'s Mosh Pit.
• Shield Glare enemies that deal significant Basic Attack damage.
• Use Blessed Shield to engage, buy time to flee, or to interrupt enemies that are channelling abilities.
• Use Iron Skin just prior to an enemy using crowd control on you.

Johanna's survivability, disruption, waveclear, and crowd control make her a very solid Hero overall, and a good fit for nearly any team composition.

Johanna can be played either defensively, by blocking enemy Heroes approaching her team, or offensively, by walking towards enemy Heroes and disrupting their moves. Iron Skin, with its potential 4 seconds of Unstoppable, makes Johanna very effective versus teams with a lot of crowd control.

Last but not the least, Johanna can be played as either main Tank or Solo Laner. Just makes sure to choose the appropriate Talents based on your Role in the team, otherwise you will lack important features on your Hero.