Soraka does % health true damage to herself

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You're not supposed to buy any defensive items if you can help it.

A Banner still gives AP and team support (along with the awesome active that synergizes with her perfectly), Spectre's Cowl can either give yourself increased healing (as in - more health for your teammates) or save you from a spell when upgraded. These are very important things to have as a vulnerable healer.

Warmog's passive doesn't make up for the slot+gold, and depends upon the fact that you're not dealing ANY damage in teamfights. Then you're wasting 100% of Starcall's utility. So you're not only down a slot+gold, you're wasting an entire ability.

tbh, i dont really care what were supposed to do.

i do whats effective, and from experience, just building warmorgs into a standart support build is pretty effective in drawn out fights and siege situations. youre constanly regenerating a good amount of health which allows you to heal more often without getting low on health yourself.

You're not supposed to buy any defensive items if you can help it.

That's not exactly true. When they were close to releasing the rework, Soraka was originally going to have this passive "A % of Sorakas Armor and MR is converted to AP", so they heavily encouraged buying resists, guardian angel was going to be a core item, however players didn't like this passive, so they removed it. But they still encourage buying resists.

Playing Soraka with full AP and no defensive items means your heals are going to be overwhelming, but that's a very dangerous game. Anyone who knows Soraka should know that she has to be focused first in teamfights, so without resists you are going to get blown up by anyone with super long range (xerath, ziggs, lux, kog) or assasins (rengar, talon, kha'zix)

Warmogs isn't the perfect item for Soraka, but it's definitely useful in certain situations (granted it is gold inefficient).

Heh, that Bloodthirster stat is funny. The high win rate for warmogs was talked about in another thread (don't have link) and the reason it is so high is because it's an item that gets built when players are ahead and dominating a game.

From the pure standpoint of Soraka's heal cost, Warmogs/stacking health is ineffective since it draws on %Max Health. This is what most people scream about when they say "I rage when I see Soraka building health." However this fails to acknowledge a basic fact. Say a Soraka with 2000 health casts her heal five times. She is now at 50% health, or 1000 hp. A Soraka with a Warmogs has 3000, and with the same number of heals is at 1500 hp instead. Thus, with the same number of heals, she is still harder to kill with 'mogs. Although I would probably go for resistances first and then 'mogs late game, its effective nonetheless. Not to mention that when Soraka is strong, she is always a target, so she needs to avoid getting blown up

It is actually a counter intuitive item but bloodthirster does sort of situationally work on her. It makes your AA do damage, and gives you tons of HP back for more heals. It works only if you can play as a super safe back lane.

People think that warmogs hurts because of her HP costs, but if you had 1000 HP without warmogs and you heal 3 times you are down to 700 HP. with warmogs you have 1800 HP and 3 heals takes you down to 1260. Your heal costs more sure, but you still have 560 more HP than you would have had and you get the regen. The cost difference is 240HP which is ~22 seconds of using its passive provided that you are dodging enemy damage. The total HP cost of three heals is regened in ~1 min. The passive is also very very good for full team sustain during sieges. Situation: you are having a hard time landing your starcalls and need the HP regen + some degree of tankiness.

Remember to try these inside of her normal build, not instead of. You still NEED AP and sightstone and gold item and such. These odd items work best as individual aberrations to her "normal" build but only under very specific conditions. Just remember why items are purchased and you can fit them in occasionally.

Warmorgs is actually good because sorakas base hp regen is (one of) the lowest in the game. Warmogs gives her a ton of hp regen (at least 4x more regen than without) since it scales with max hp not base regen. It's the best item by far for her it aram, and it's not the best in 5s, but I would definitely recomend it if the enemy team has an ap kog maw, a mid varus, a fed jayce, or an ap ezreal.

Mana potions only have a 38% win rate.

That's because most of the time, a Soraka with a BT is either a surf or someone so fed on gold that they can afford crazy items, which means they are already in a position to crush the match they're in.

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That's most likely because just about the only time you'd want to build a on a Soraka is when you're ahead anyway. Statistics like that can easily be, and often are, skewed.

For example, if I play and buy a and then win 75 out of 100 games (most likely from being so far ahead the deathcap is more of a taunt, or just having my team carry me) then deathcap Darius now has a 75% winrate.

Does that mean deathcap is secretly OP on Darius? No, it simply means that Darius just happens to have that item in his inventory when he won, not that it necessarily helped him to win. Correlation does not equal causation.

To add to your point..100% of humans who drink water die...So is water poisonous? :p