Soraka has the worst gameplay pattern of all supports, its so unhealthy

Vallalan··1 votes·396 views

Is anything ever going to be done that makes her healthy to play against? can it? in her current state she is a nightmare to deal with and pretty much wins lane by herself. a good soraka will never even need to land many Qs leaving your chances to CC her or lock her down very limited. The idea with her kit right now is that she has to land her Q (not hard to land in lane) to keep up her sustained healing of before. with the healing buff items and windspeakers she is nightmare to deal with. the ult with no ap is healing for almost half of her and her adc's life bar and her basic heals are probably a huge amount for how short of a cooldown/mana cost it is.

I understand that is basically all she is, she is just the healer. she is the sustain support. but unlike other sustain supports (nami/etc.) soraka doesn't really have to interact with you. maybe the occasional Q if that. otherwise she can just pot up, run health regen runes/masteries and then just sit back while her adc does whatever they want to you. now another trade off is that you have very little kill pressure with a soraka lane, but this just means you are encouraged to do nothing other than farm. a soraka lane is non interactive for BOTH sides.

what is the stance of the balance team on soraka right now? she doesn't necessary feel "broken", but she feels oppressive in lane and super un fun/non interactive to play with? is she being considered for yet another rework? at this point I feel like in her current state she is never going to be balanceable unless they massively increase the mana cost on her heal so she can't just spam it.

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LegitBusinessman2 votes

She doesn't win lane, she guarantees a lane is neutral. If I see an enemy Soraka, I pick Jinx because I know I'm getting an easy path to hypercarry land. She has no kill pressure.

Vallalan1 votes

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She doesn't win lane, she guarantees a lane is neutral. If I see an enemy Soraka, I pick Jinx because I know I'm getting an easy path to hypercarry land. She has no kill pressure.

there are other ways to win lane besides getting kills. getting a huge CS lead is just as important, especially the higher up the ladder you climb where mistakes are made less and less.

Apocalypsic1 votes

I ban Soraka every game for that exact reason, and then even if you do get on her to take her out she silences you and then the enemy team destroys you because for about 1-2 seconds you can do nothing other than move.

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