Should Soraka be a priority to kill?

xxxMadLionxxx·Apr 25, 2016·9 votes·1,922 views

Just thinking strategy here. She has powerful heals for the entire team. Would it make sense for a assassin to target her over the adc?

24 Comments

darkmatchwaldoApr 25, 201611 votes

ALWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS Kill Soraka first. A good Soraka can and will predict the assassin diving for her ADC and will simply drop Equinox onto her ADC. Locking you in place and basically placing her massive hoof in your bum. Even if you succeed in one shotting the ADC before she can heal them, she's still going to Equinox you and set you up to die. You have to take her out first or she's going to win her team the fight with heals even without the ADC.

Soraka is most known for her insane heals...but her true power lies in her AOE silence/root. If you get stuck in it as an assassin you are going to die.

WofyeApr 25, 20161 votes

I always throw the equinox on top of myself when I think an assassin is going to jump at me...then they die lol. The next best thing against a Raka I would say is tons of AoE damage, I really fear an MF ult, especially if she's all the way in the back and I am unable to equinox it without running through their team and dying.

IcyPepperApr 25, 201610 votes

Yes, I'd say so.

A lot of people seem uncomfortable with not being able to ignore a support, and some get upset when that blows up in their face.

Soraka provides powerful support, so you can cripple the enemy team by taking her out.

LightIsMyPathApr 25, 20164 votes

I think yes, but maybe if you are a one-shot kind of champion ( maybe stuff like rengar or talon, with instant burst) you can go even for the carry as raka won't have time to react and heal all the load of damage.. Just my opinion though, I'm just a bronzie xD

FantasySniperApr 25, 20163 votes

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LuciferApr 25, 20161 votes

She should be a priority ban

Irelia BotApr 25, 20161 votes

If her carry is out of place no but currently her kit makes her carries to safe when out of place which is kinda a problem.

TheThundersRoarApr 25, 20161 votes

Always Soraka first. If you're a super-fed burst mage/assassin, you CANNOT assassinate through her heals. Take her out first.

FourVsFiveApr 25, 20161 votes

out burst her heals. or use AOE champs maybe like brand, as she needs to be close to her allies to heal and when she does her heals dmg her + your AOE = dead everyone?

TotalJerkApr 25, 20161 votes

Yes, IMO though she's too hard to kill at the moment. Her silence and the added kiting power/sustain of her new Q is fucking amazing.

Baby GhoulApr 25, 20161 votes

Usually focusing the support is bad, but in the case of supports like Soraka and Janna, you should when possible. I wouldn't waste a ban on her considering the state of the game. In low ELO, other roles are still far more likely to overpower your team.

The issue for you is supports are normally very aware of their surroundings. If the Soraka is experienced, then they are going to be used to the ADC like attention they get from mid lane assassins. Keep track of her ultimate, she will use it to save herself, and always take a look at her build and plan for it.

I don't think the W heals are the part of her kit that gets most assassins, it's her silence that normally messes them up. That's why you don't want her in the fight besides her ultimate.

Target Soraka when possible, but don't ever be salty and risk your team's likelihood of winning just to kill her. I can't tell you how many times an assassin has taken the suicidal 1v5 route just to kill a Soraka. It always backfires in ranked games. Even if you cause her to waste a flash and go back with little HP you've done your job. She's out of the fight now.

Soraka is a bit of a catch 22 at the moment. It's bad to target supports because they scale poorly anyways and they have little income. Their kits are not based around kills and deaths, and that makes them unique. However Soraka gives a teammate the potential to out trade their counterparts when usually they would die quite easily because of low CS or bad kiting etc.

That's the reason I love Soraka. As a support she has more control over the game without having to build all AP with no attention to map control.

I think the support class overall needs an update though. More AP supports need that kind of impact.

WinBoatApr 25, 20161 votes

It's hard to say.

I think during teamfights completely 5v5... You absolutely have to kill her first. It's almost a must.

However, during lane phase when you're having a jungler gank and all that, killing her first may not be needed although it's steal annoying for her to heal them and all, I think if your jungler can do a ton of damage, then focusing the adc is the better choice.

But yeah, in late game teamfights, you need to focus her.

Akali is SO HOTApr 25, 20161 votes

Yes always. Soraka is one of the few supports that absolutely needs to be taken out immediately in a fight or you're fukt. It's why she's so broken and has the highest winrate atm for support.

Teridax68Apr 25, 20161 votes

Yes. If you don't, she'll heal whoever else you'll be targeting back so fast and so much it'll be practically impossible to kill them, especially as an assassin. She, on the other hand, is pretty easy to kill, so she'll die quickly if you focus her, and doing so deprives her entire team of massive utility. If you make a first strike against her, you'll also likely blow her ultimate, which has a huge cooldown and is mostly inefficient unless used as a last-ditch team-wide save.

RendarkanApr 25, 20161 votes

Stop being logical you are on the LoL boards. That is heresy to be logical and reasonable with thoughts.

Sire HippingtonApr 25, 20161 votes

Depends on the situation, which ever is the easier to kill target at the moment should get taken out between adc and sora, and if both are in kill range, the adc should still be priority. However, one should not forget soras silence and heals when estimateing whever the adc is killable or not.

ltmetalApr 25, 20161 votes

In solo queue where players often have wide variances in skill level, even on the same team, you have to spend the whole laning phase assessing who on each team has the greatest carry potential. If your jungler ganked bot and killed the ADC because Soraka immediately chickened out, focus the ADC. If your jungler gave the ADC a triple because Soraka got a three man snare, focus Soraka.

Ulquiorra995Apr 25, 20161 votes

Definittely. She's specifically designed like that. I remember one of the designers around the rework saying that you have to focus her first; she heals so much that focusing another target is pointless but she's nearly defenseless by herself so killing her should be pretty easy.

Jungle Lux GodApr 25, 20161 votes

Well, here are your options:

-You can target the ADC and not kill the ADC because Soraka heals them out of death range -You can target the Soraka and kill her without contest because Soraka is squishy as hell, letting you burst her down with little contest and possibly letting you kill the ADC first

I'm no expert on assassins but I'm pretty sure the latter option is better.

ChatillonApr 26, 20162 votes

What kind of soraka's are you fighting. When i play soraka i build tank lol

Jungle Lux GodApr 26, 20161 votes

Maybe "squishy as hell" wasn't the right word, but the point is that she builds tankier than the ADC and she's still easier to kill than the ADC because of her heals.

ErockandrollApr 25, 20161 votes

That may be dependent on the type of Assassin your using.

If you have to use your hard engage, only to remove the support from the field, that would be a problem as you still have the enemy DPS to take care of.

If your playing an assassin with Resets like YI, Kat, Akali, you would have a better chance of turning on the enemy ADC afterwards.

crippler38Apr 26, 20161 votes

this is why I play shaco, you can insta burst the raka.

Hullabaloo907Apr 26, 20161 votes

It depends on what items the soraka has. Most sorakas will build tanky enough to not get instagibed. If you know you can kill her instantly, do so. If you can't, she will drop her silence and the enemy team will blow you up.