Way to make soraka worthless in ARAM

hellionbastard··3 votes·3,545 views

As someone with more than my fair share of Sona wins in ARAM thanks to little more than quite literally mashing the W key for 20 minutes and maybe getting some lich bane procs here and there, I was thrilled to see that she finally received a long overdue nerf.

The problem is that the same nerf makes Soraka 1000% useless in ARAM. This is unfortunately because while Sona takes almost no skill whatsoever to play effectively enough to help your team to a huge degree, landing enough Q's to heal your team as Soraka takes a reasonable amount of skill. Moreover, the fact that Soraka's R has been decimated as well means that she is now almost Urgot-level worthless in this game mode.

While I like the fact that Riot has not been tweaking individual champions for ARAM, there was no need to apply such a huge nerf to all healing champions when Sona was legitimately the only gamebreaking champion. Just permabanning Sona from ARAM would have been enough. .

Riot you need to reverse the healing aura change and figure out how to deal with Sona in some other way.

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Maximum Morde2 votes

Now if only they would do the same to healing from lifesteal/self healing XD.

Fashion Mage2 votes

They actually completely removed the penalty to self-healing, because self-healing is somehow better than healing gained from a squishy target that kills herself by healing.

7ha7guy7772 votes

i will admit that her R took a huge hit, but i managed to do pretty well as her when i wound up getting her today (even though i've played her maybe twice since the rework). i even got a triple kill with 2 of them being death by banana.

AnOstrichWithPMS2 votes

meanwhile ap nidalee somehow still one of the most annoying things in aram....did they even nerf her?

disregardable1 votes

You make this post like the same thing doesn't apply on the Rift, even without the nerf.

hellionbastard1 votes

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You make this post like the same thing doesn't apply on the Rift, even without the nerf.

Who actually still plays games on summoner's rift?

disregardable1 votes

most people.

Clopping Pony1 votes

I'm glad they nerfed all healers on ARAM. Healing on ARAM was really broken.

LeapSecond1 votes

Sona got buffed...you heal your teammate for less but you heal yourself for more, staying alive longer to spam that gamebreaking W shield.

Drunk Rummate1 votes

New strategy for raka in ARAM is to just build her AD. Her auto range is fluid enough and long enough for it to work.

It's aram man, its really no big deal. Just take the cards you're dealt and make the best of it. That's always been my mantra in the mode.

futuresight231 votes

Some would call that cause for celebration.

9ne 1ne 8ght1 votes

This might be an old thread but its still relevant as she hasn't seen any nerfs/buffs since then that I know of..at least in the major variety since her rework. Was just up against a Soraka today and the statement that she is worthless is categorically false. Now I still managed to have an ok game on fiddlesticks, but fiddle is usually a bend you over a park bench type champ in aram. With raka on the other team she flash silenced me once (an extremely short cd traded for an over 100 sec ultimate cooldown) during my channel for ultimate. Raka also would save her ult for my ult and every time despite me fearing her would use ult and effectively cancel fiddle's ult. Is she toned down some? Sure. To say that she's worthless though? She was giving 1/2 hp back early-mid aram to champs that would have been dead and turning the both team all ins to a 5 for 0 in favor of her.

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