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
• Capable of interrupting
• On-demand Unstoppable

Weaknesses

• Low damage
• No tools to handle high-mobility Heroes
• Low mobility
• Reliant on the Shield from Iron Skin to survive longer

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 gives you the opportunity to Blind enemy Heroes more often and, in the late-game, get self-healing and cooldown reduction from that.

You can play this Build when you and your teammates need help against enemy Heroes who rely on Basic Attacks (for example Greymane). Just make sure to keep at least one charge of Shield Glare for peeling.

Basic Attacks Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7 ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

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Johanna's Basic Attacks Build allows you to crowd control enemy Heroes more often in the late game while also having a respectable amount of additional survivability.

You can play this Build when you want more self-sustain in the early game, thanks to Laws of Hope at Level 1, and when you want more playmaking potential later on, thanks to Blessed Momentum at Level 16.

ARAM Build

ARAM

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7 ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

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Johanna's ARAM Build gives you the opportunity to Blind enemy Heroes more often and, in the late-game, get self-healing and cooldown reduction from that.

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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 can be countered by constantly depleting her Health with sustain damage, targeting her while Iron Skin is on cooldown, or using high-mobility Heroes to target her backline.

Varian, due to Shattering Throw at Level 13, can completely destroy Johanna's main defensive tools: Iron Skin baseline and Indestructible at Level 20.

Johanna's stronger maps

Johanna's average maps

Johanna's weaker maps

Johanna performs better on medium-sized Battlegrounds that favor early-game rotations with tons of waveclear (such as Tomb of the Spider Queen) or on Battlegrounds where it is easy to reach the late game (for example Warhead Junction). On the other hand, she is lackluster on most 2-lane Maps as well as Maps with wide empty areas (such as Hanamura Temple).

• Try to damage and Slow adjacent enemy Heroes with Punish, usually after casting Condemn to group them.
• Condemn can interrupt animations (such as Dwarf Toss by Muradin) or channelling Abilities (for example Mosh Pit by E.T.C.).
• Use Shield Glare to Blind enemies that deal significant damage with Basic Attacks.
• Use Blessed Shield to engage, buy time to flee, or to interrupt enemies that are channelling Abilities (such as Holy Word: Salvation by Anduin).
• Use Iron Skin just prior to an enemy using crowd control on you and/or to mitigate incoming burst damage.

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 Offlaner. Just makes sure to choose the appropriate Talents based on your Role in the team, otherwise you will lack important features on your Hero.