Basically I play Soraka. Read this.

Basically I play Soraka. Yeah fuck it.

You can call me otp, no skill, bad player or whatever. Truth is I was always high diamond since season 4 and even was master/challenger in a certain year by playing my favourite champion in innovative ways.

I would get 50 armor level 1 on my runes, have tons of ad, tons of life Regen, tons of mana Regen, go full Mr and much other combinations to surprise other players and have fun playing ranked. All that worked as part of a "skill expression" and would help me to climb.

Well now I can't.

The new runes don't work for every champion, have strange scaling status+high base status (what I really don't think was necessary) and my feeling is that Soraka now can only be played one way and if you don't play it that way you are jeopardizing your team.

So let me talk about this case for Soraka:

You either go full damage/harassment against a champion you can abuse that or you lose. God, and even when you win this feel so bad. You don't win by healing you win by abusing harass (exception is when you won lane hard, what is part of the problem).

Knowing that if I don't win lane (notice that staying 0/0 is included) I will definitely lose feels like playing thresh knowing that you Q range decreases 50 range every minute past 5.

Part of that is because hard cc is just plain and simple too strong right now.

Against hard cc playing soraka is plain suicide because tank supps deal damage as assassins and I have no time to save anyone anymore If they are caught even if I play it really well and outperform all other players. If I don't stomp 8/0 my lane I'm not winning.

The point of my sadness goes even beyond because even when I win, I think i won as a lane abuser and not as a healer. If I just don't kill anyone on lane and any 0/0 fight happens mid or late (where her healing part should be more meaningful) I already know I'm doomed to lose it.

Everyone dies so insanely fast that I just don't know what to do. Worst than that, playing Soraka is a burden to your team because they have to pick certain runes to try to abuse some support item bullshit trying to make you more viable and all that do is transfer my sadness to other people. Now not only I can play my champion the way I wanted but my ad can't too.

For me it's clear that a rune as over heal should be part of soraka passive and just not exist for other champions at all (specially because it make normal levels of harass useless for all bot lane supports and adcs). Soraka lose health to heal so she pays a price and would still require starcall interaction to maintain a shield during lane.

Runes should either have some interesting innovative component or a well know power spike that would make you personalize your play style. Runes now have both base damage and insane scaling portions that make it insanely snowballs. Some runes give both offensively status and defensive status and for me that is straight no-counter play bullshit. Where is the idea of high risk high reward?

You can play Leona against virtually all match up you want (counter or not) and still win basically every game, but you have 1 every 10 games that Soraka will have a chance and when it happens still is very unsatisfying for her, who is playing with her

This is not a runt against the new rune system (I 100% support it) but I liked when I could have fun making MY SORAKA, MY WAY and feeling I still have a chance when mid/late arrived. Winning lane was cool but I knew I would scale somehow and have a chance if I was not caught!

Can't we just rework how runes are right now? I don't want to wait 1 whole year to be able to play my favourite champion. You guys made Soraka Life so hard for the wrong reasons and I just want to be able to have fun again.

Thank you for reading. Also I don't really think that a rune like revitalize add anything to the game. If we are picking runes to increase status I would prefer the old system integrated with the new one so at least I could have a choice of how I want my status to be.