Don't tone down Soraka by touching her mana costs or lowering her range.

TLDR: Instead, move her W passive to her Q.

As an avid Soraka player, these changes are terrible if you want to keep her viable.

The problem with Q change:

• The range decrease to 800 feels really really bad when you consider the delay isn't changing. 1 second delay at 800 range is awful. This will make Soraka even less interactive in lane, because I for one will just invest more in HP regen and potions; I am not going into 800 range of anyone to fire a 1 second delay skillshot. Not happening.

Problem with W cost:

• 120 mana every 2 seconds or so is absolutely too much. No other support guzzles that much mana that quickly. Don't punish Soraka for what she does well - increase the costs on Q and E if you want. Keep W low.

Instead, move the W passive to Q Right now, Soraka will almost always go W-E-Q because W provides self and ally sustain. No reason (other than crappy waveclearing) should Soraka be maxing Q second.

Doing this will force Soraka will choose between greater poke and self-sustain OR better ally-sustain. Part of the problem is that maxing W provides sustain to both Soraka and her allies, so she doesn't lose anything by maxing E second.

I think a good solution to keep Soraka in line without overdoing it (which these nerfs are going to do) is:

W passive gets moved to Q Q cost goes to 65/75/85/95/105 from 70/75/80/85/90 (can be tweaked) Q's center hit no longer has an increased AP ratio, but the base damage is still increased. Q self heal no longer increases on missing health - instead it has a moderate base amount with a 20% AP ratio Qs that hit multiple champions have their self heal AP ratio increased W health cost now scales down with level - 14%/13%/12%/11%/10%

Now Soraka actually has incentive to max Q