Soraka Change

Seth Lightheart·4/13/2015, 8:34:02 PM·2 votes·1,559 views

I assume this will never happen, but personally I thought it was an interesting idea. Instead of Soraka's heal costing HP, what if she took magic (Physical or Mixed) instead? making it so resistances are now applied.

If this were to happen Soraka wouldn't need to always build HP. Allowing her to also build tanky MR (or Armor) items giving players more options.

(And before people say 'that's op' numbers can be tweaked )

Edit Please Note: I am not talking about building health on Soraka. I am talking about her instead of losing X HP she takes X damage, which would allow for resistances to apply.

15 Comments

Ice Weasel X4/13/2015, 8:39:31 PM7 votes

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If this were to happen Soraka wouldn't need to always build HP. Allowing her to also build tanky MR (or Armor) items giving players more options.

She already should prefer resists over HP. The 10% HP cost means that she can only heal 10 times from a full HP bar, regardless of her max HP. Having a smaller max HP means her Q heals will recover a larger percentage of her HP bar, thus allowing her to heal more. When she stacks HP, she loses it at the same rate as before, but heals herself for smaller percentages of her HP bar.

Delimon4/13/2015, 8:50:04 PM2 votes

Or we could do ^'s idea of % max hp as well as instead of making it an HP cost actually make it a mana cost with a higher cd because killing yourself as a healer is retarded.

Drackolus4/13/2015, 11:25:48 PM2 votes

Actually, building hp is already the WRONG way to go. Most of your health is lost as that 10% donation, and your healing skills/health regen are not %, so building health actually hurts you more than it helps you. Armor and mr are not just the best way to get tanky... it's the only effective way. If they make any change to her other than slight number tweaks, I feel they should give her a health conversion engine passive, so that health doesn't screw her so hard. The only problem with that is that Warmog's and Spirit Visage would become waaaaay too gold efficient no matter what stat it's converted to and at what ratio.

stuartk114/13/2015, 8:47:48 PM1 votes

You could have it so that her Heal actually heals a percentage of the target's Max HP instead of a set number. Having to lose HP to heal is a massive cost on someone who is primarily designed around healing.

Pandemic Punch4/13/2015, 11:07:10 PM1 votes

I just wish they would revert the rework. She was one of my favorite champions to play :-(

Miku Lv994/14/2015, 8:25:56 AM1 votes

You actually can stack health as soraka. But only if you have Warmog's + Spirit Visage. With both, you regain an extra 3.6% of your max hp every 5 seconds while out of combat. That way, even if you have tons of max HP, you still regenerate enough for another heal at least every 13.8 seconds, and probably more often since you have other HP/5. Although this is still not necessarily a good idea in a lot of situations. I also would really like to just have the old Soraka back.