Idea for Soraka: Can her Rejuvenation scale off HP regen bonuses?

darkdill··1 votes·536 views

One problem I really dislike for Soraka is that HP regen stats on items do virtually nothing for her. People just bypass the problem with Warmog's Armor, but this leads to her being an exploiter (and Riot hates item poachers). And ever since her Q got changed to the Rejuvenation mechanic, she simply cannot survive being attacked.

Riot seems to only want Soraka to heal herself by taking risks rather than being passive, which Warmog's tends to undermine. My thought is that Soraka needs more reason to get HP regen from support items rather than going with that Warmog's exploit, but Riot seems to think such an idea would make her toxic in lane again.

How about this, though: What if HP regen bonuses from her items improved the healing she gets from Rejuvenation?

This way, if she really wants to put that regen to use, she's gotta land her Q's. But if she does land her Q's, she gets considerably more health back once she's built up some items. Risk/reward, right?

"Putting this on live would be broken!"

You assume the values would not be adjusted accordingly. I assume Riot would reduce the base values of Rejuvenation a bit (i.e. to 10/12/14/16/18 health per second instead of 14/16/18/20/22 per second) to compensate for the improvement, but the payoff would be that Soraka wouldn't get less value out of support itemization.

"Why do this?"

I want to try and move Soraka players away from building Warmog's Armor, as her abuse of it could get the item nerfed eventually and she shouldn't need to resort to a tank item just to stay alive. But simply increasing her base HP regen isn't allowed, so having bonus HP regen boost her Rejuvenation would be a good alternative.

Could this work?

5 Comments

Oglaf2 votes

Only noob Sorakas build Warmogs anyway.

Pro Sorakas build AP for more (self) healing.

Besides, the new Passive of items like item 3107 should work on her Q self-heal, no? So she's already been buffed on that area recently.

darkdill1 votes

It still feels overly punitive that she can't benefit well from HP regen items (besides Warmog's) while all other supports can. For instance, item 3174 is bad on Soraka because the Harmony passive (gain % bonus HP regen equal to your % bonus mana regen) doesn't help her.

Oglaf1 votes

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It still feels overly punitive that she can't benefit well from HP regen items (besides Warmog's) while all other supports can.

I still feel she is fine. As I said, she's gotten an indirect buff with that new Healing/Shield boost and she still benefits from item 3065.

Paroe1 votes

... Why cant we make sorakas starfall an actually powerful ability that costs health, then make it so rejuvination is a link-type ability that heals based on sorakas regen stats? If soraka has 25hp/5 and 10mana/5 then she would share it with up to one person as long as soraka is not full health/mana.

Names Are Scarce1 votes

I go scaling HP Regen Seals, flat HP Regen Quints, Armor Marks, and Scaling Mana Regen Glyphs. I don't give a shit when I get poked in lane. I also build Talisman for kiting around aggressors and regen. Then I get some AP from Rabadon's.

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