WHY IS SORAKA EVEN ALLOWED TO HEAL MINIONS
DOES THIS FUCKING EXIST JUST TO MAKE ME MISCLICK
OH LOOK MY LEES AT 20 HEALTH
BETTER HEAL THAT FULL HEALTH MINION
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Pushing a turret? Heal the cannon minion.
Have mana/hp to spare and the enemy's going to last hit? Heal the minion(also fun to shield them).
Don't underestimate minions.
Gotta appease those loony "minion's rights" activists somehow.
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DOES THIS FUCKING EXIST JUST TO MAKE ME MISCLICK
OH LOOK MY LEES AT 20 HEALTH
BETTER HEAL THAT FULL HEALTH MINION
My face when that accident happened:
+ Cannon Minion + Soraka Heal = World's Mightiest Minion
My favorite part about soraka is her ability to completely fuck with the enemy laner by healing the minions they are trying to last hit. I can sometimes get them to rage quit, and my adc usually comes out of laning phase at least 20 CS ahead. You have a mechanism to get health back; use it. In fact, the more YOU focus CS denial, the more the enemy focuses getting their cs before you can heal, which leaves a very predictable pattern and actually makes it easier to hit your Q.
I suggest you adapt your playstyle and give it a try. It works wonders. heal cs, hit q, repeat.
The worst thing is that you can also heal things like J4's flag.
Pushing, don't misclick.
This separates good Soraka players from bad ones.
Sometimes i'll purposely heal a tank minion or another minion to screw up last hits. Or you can screw up an obvious Irelia Q if she's chasing.
Im pretty sure theres a button you can press so that you can only target champions.
i like to heal my minions when the enemy adc is trying to cs, it makes them very mad
First of all, you severely underestimate the power of healing a minion. Like someone else said, you can really screw with someone's farm pattern if you heal a minion. Also, it can be the difference between taking a turret or not.
Second, you do know that you can just click heal on the icons to the left, right? Whomever you want to heal, just go to that icon and quick cast on them.
Third, I believe there is a quick command that you can toggle to just target champions. Could be wrong, though.
if you time your heal well, you fk up the enemy last hitting lmao
The problem is that Riot needs to make targeted abilities better at prioritizing, not that some healers can heal minions. All targeted abilities are affected by this— minions cover up too much of a champion's "targeting" hitbox.
Because minions are people too.
Well, if you want to always heal up a certain ally 100% without the risk of misclicking, you can always press W on their champion portrait (I do this if we're in teamfights and everyone's clumped up).
As for /why/ she can: you can use this to push minion waves to tower when you know they have backed/died, or you can even deny cs every once in a while. Emote-laughing when I deny them a cannon minion is fun :^)
perhaps there should be a change forbidding Soraka from healing full health units. you know, to avoid those sorts of misclicks costing you time and mana
Better question is why can I still use my E on minions as Lulu? A situation where using it along with Q rarely comes up even when you just take into account using it on enemy minions. Why even give me the possibility to accidentally use it on an ally minion instead of an ally champ when it gives no benefit? At least Soraka actually does something to the minion when she heals it.
Damn I'm still mad about them taking away the ability to shield minions.
It's the same when you bear rush with udyr and click a minion... there goes your stun... onto a minion. You know why it exists? To identify Bronze players.
Because
It shouldn't be able to activate on a full health target (just like you aren't able to use HP pots at full health), but healing minions is a 100% good thing.
Don't ruin my siege minion Soraka split push strategy.