Make Soraka's "Q" have no cast time

58304318_DEL·11/26/2014, 11:19:25 PM·3 votes·1,091 views

Soraka's "W" has an immediate cast time, while on the other hand her "Q" [Starcall] has a delayed cast time (where she stops and swings her wand to call the star), and after that there's another delay, before the star drops down and hits the enemy. Now, what if this spell worked as Syndras "Q"?

I think this would be an interesting idea to make her "Q" work immediately and alongside her walking animation for various reasons:

  • First, she has one of the most difficult to land kiting abilities, so stopping her every time she has to cast one doesn't help her much either
  • This change would give her a bigger chance to protect herself from the more "flexible" champions that are in the League (and there's quite a lot of them), plus she's pretty much killing herself over her allies, with her "W" in the first place
  • Most people don't like high ping and slow cast reactions, because it feels really unsatisfying, like if the champion isn't doing what he's told to do (same usually goes for a slow cast time on auto attacks)

On the other hand, this change could make her a little out of control, but that could be easily prevented by either increasing her cooldown or decreasing a cast range on her "Q" just a tiny bit...

That's pretty much all from my side, I tried my best to speak as clearly as possible, since I'm not a native English speaker. I'm looking forward to your feedback!

Ps. Why don't you guys allow her to damage creeps with her "E"? It feels really underwhelming to play her, when trying to defend a tower from large pile of incoming creeps all by herself...

10 Comments

TheFallenShaw11/26/2014, 11:25:52 PM3 votes

No just No, She already is very frustrating for some champs to gank with the current star call

disregardable11/26/2014, 11:43:00 PM2 votes

The problem with this is that it's basically unlimited free lifesteal. The E's cast time is instant to balance out the issue of having extremely mobile ADCs (Lucian), where that Q is impossible to hit. So even if you're never gonna get any lifesteal that whole laning phase, at least you can do some damage.

COWMANOFCOWS11/27/2014, 1:32:52 AM1 votes

just rename her and bring back the old raka. i miss that raka :.(