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Soraka Discussion

Stacona··1 votes·566 views

Please be reasonable here and offer feedback and feedback with actual meaningful purpose, display what you want to get across, and actually accomplishes something for a greater goal. I do not want to see anything along the lines of down voting just because it is Soraka being discussed here or messages like "you suck, go kill yourself, how dare you suggest changes to MY champion" wording will change, but the general message is still the same, also things like "Soraka is perfectly fine, GTFO!" also do not offer any constructive feedback to help improve on Soraka for the long term game.

I am going off the premise of Soraka is a dedicated healer and trying to have a kit that works for her that is not insanely frustrating and/or boring to play against, while offering the Soraka player the satisfying gameplay of clutch heals to save her allies. If you have qualms with this identity then take it up with the comments section below!

I will also probably take pages from heals from other games as well that I feel make heals more fair, especially to play against (I am not talking about strictly other MOBAs).

Movement: 340 units per second [from 325]

Wish (Passive): Range: 1100/1400/1700/2000 units [scales with ultimate] Soraka's heals against other allied champions ignore grievous wounds. Soraka's heals are increased by 100% when she is below 40% health, but Astral Blessing's range cannot be extended.

If an allied champion is below 40% health then Astral Blessing can be cast against them at a much greater range. Soraka becomes notified whenever any allied champion is below 40% health.

Starcall (Q): Cooldown: 3.5/3/2.5/2/1.5 seconds; Cost: 35/40/45/50/55 Mana; Range: 550 units Soraka blasts star energy to the closest enemy dealing 60/80/100/120/140(+40%AP) magic damage. If the target was a champion then the star energy returns to Soraka healing herself for 25/30/35/40/45(+20%AP) health and doubling her next Astral Blessing's heal within the next 1.5 seconds.

Astral Blessing (W): Cooldown: None; Cost: 60/70/80/90/100 Mana; Range: 550 units Soraka heals the target allied champion or herself for 100/150/200/250/300(+100%AP) health. Consecutive casts of Astral Blessing within 20/18/16/14/12 seconds [reduces with CDR] reduces the heal against the same target by 50% than the last.

Eclipse (E): Cooldown: 22/20/18/16/14 seconds; Cost: 70 Mana; Range: 550 units Soraka creates a magical barrier and a zone that follows around her that persists for 1.5 seconds, silencing enemies within and stopping enemy dashes that make contact with it.

At the end of the duration the zone detonates dealing 100/140/180/220/260(+70%AP) magic damage to struck enemies.

Shooting Star (R): Cooldown: 180/150/120 seconds; Cost: 100 Mana; Min. Range: 1000+ / 600 units Soraka cannot cast Shooting Star against allied champions close to her.

Soraka turns into star energy herself to quickly rush over to the target allied champion, upon arrival she knocks back nearby enemies to the outside and deals 300/400/500(+100%AP) magic damage.

4 Comments

Rosenwyn2 votes

The reason Soraka became super goddamn annoying is because her ult could remove Grievous Wounds. Before that update, a lot of people thought Soraka was more or less "low tier" anyways. Why give it back to her as passive? The tradeoff that it isn't a global ult? No. That's not going to help "fix" playing against Soraka. Balance-wise Soraka is overall fine, it's just enemies don't like to build Grievous Wounds against her. I've went into plenty of games where the enemy midlaner was the only one with GW (morellos and possibly ignite), but the adc didn't get executioner's calling and the support didn't go for ignite (which, depending on team comp, could be more valuable than exhaust). Once the enemy builds some Grievous Wounds, typically Soraka's healing is neutered and a lot more manageable and easier to deal with. This is an issue I've seen people also ignore when they're fighting something like Swain and Vladimir, as well.

And you'd also be nerfing nearly half the range on her Q. 550 units is the average adc AA range; her Q is currently 800 range right now. That would hurt her laning tremendously, along with her peel. Her E is 925 and you're also suggesting to make it a short-range aoe. The issue is that Soraka is a ranged, squishy champion; she's not tanky. The R doing 500 damage + 100% AP is also massive... even ignoring the AP bonus, there isn't really a reason a healing support should be dealing 500+ damage in a single ability, especially as an AOE knock back. Soraka should also often be with her time, but if she can't use it next to allied champions close to her, her ult would far less powerful than an ult should be in a teamfight.

You're rework idea is suggesting on gutting Soraka's laning but making her teamfighting (potentially) broken. Right now Soraka is just flavored by the meta for her current build path; I'm pretty sure when heavy-engage tank supports come back into the meta (Leona, Blitzcrank) Soraka will be easier to deal with. Some of the kit sounds interesting but I think it'd be a lot more suited (after being tweaked) for a different champion altogether. Soraka is suppose to be League's quintessential "white mage" first and foremost - she's suppose to be a backline healer, not someone who is short-ranged and more likely to be in the throws of battle. I think parts of the kit might be interesting for some kind of tankier, shorter-range clerical character (maybe some kind of celestial that could be related to Soraka, since she's bound to get a lore update sometime) but the changes would be changing Soraka's identity too much and potentially either totally dumpstering her or making changes that could be easier abused after a time to make her by far more obnoxious.

Honestly in regards to Soraka I think champions that can lightly negate some of her power would be better. There were PBE changes in plan for Morgana to deal grievous wounds on her W, which I think would be a fairer way of creating some counterplay instead of changing particularly everything about a champion.

Mizuki Zahra1 votes

I witnessed a soraka solo mid vs heimer and she was awesome

Åeolus1 votes

These changes would be WAAAAYY too much. She'd be completely broken.

Stacona1 votes

Vague and gives no constructive feedback to work off of.

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