Soraka Top Nerfs Being Switched?

Emo Twink·2/6/2020, 9:43:29 PM·2 votes·1,414 views

Hi, I was shocked to see riot actually nerfing the right thing for Soraka in other lanes, by letting her not spam Q on waves with the 60% DMG reduction. Now though, changing that into nerfs that target her support and survivability when that is going to target her support a lot is extremely idiotic when you originally had the perfect nerf for once.

Just wondering on the thoughts of switching nerfs for no reason? Seems honestly completely stupid now when it was perfect.

9 Comments

Illabethe2/6/2020, 10:58:50 PM2 votes

So basically they were going to remove any ability for her to defend a base.... like they've done with Morgana Nami Zyra .

I just love being on my Silver account and being the ONLY teammate stopping turret demolishes by minions/champions while the team blindly chases skirmishes..... only to be told: Hell no! You're not allowed to do that.

Soraka's Q does not scale high enough to farm well. Period. At best, it does about half health, and needs MANY auto attacks in between to really farm.... which she doesn't get. She already can do NOTHING to stop a Baron Push.

Both kind of nerfs are absolutely dumb.

Profirix2/6/2020, 11:02:40 PM2 votes

They want to reward Soraka support players for utilizing the Q regen + W to heal allies, which forces you to play in a duo lane. The heal power is going up overall (though I think the regen on allies is going way down, but there is no health cost on Soraka if you use the Q empowered heal which is actually a pretty decent buff to that.

I however don't think Riot needs to keep screwing with Soraka when the simple change of removing the minion wave clear should fix her. They need to stop using a bat when a scalpel is perfectly sufficient.

The proof that the balance team has lost their edge is evident every single time they 'adjust' a champion. They missed the mark with Yuumi, they destroyed Akali, and now they want to completely rework Soraka unnecessarily.

Revech2/7/2020, 1:21:19 AM1 votes

i've been saying for a while now champs should be locked into certain roles, not being able to role lock champs is why league is a literal nightmare to balance, the only way for them to remove her from top lane is to nerf her and ther's no way that isn't going to hurt support soraka. You can thank the LCS players for screwing over your soraka sup by bringing soraka top into the public eye instead of just playing her support where she was designed to be played.

Baby Ghoul2/7/2020, 1:32:21 AM1 votes

I was shocked as well.

The nerf they were originally going to put out was a great solution, but then they tweaked it further and now it sucks. They're trying to compensate those severe nerfs by giving her a slight buff to her heal which won't make a difference in this meta.

She does not need a buff to her W. The old sit back and heal Soraka has not been viable in a meta with this much damage for a while. She needs to be interactive early game, so nerfing her Q further, especially in an engage support meta, was the wrong move.

It's hard enough surviving against champions like Nautilus where you're one broken hitbox away from death or other champions like Zyra that spam pokes you to death so easily.

Her Q is so easy to dodge because the missile time takes forever. If anything, that should have been changed as well. For anyone that is wondering, the new Q nerf also lowers her self-heal and movement speed granted as well as **increases **the mana cost. Again, it's one of the easiest abilities to dodge bot lane.