Just because I am Soraka, does not mean you dont have to worry about taking damage.

JavelinJoe··65 votes·3,344 views

Not a lot frustrates me more than supporting a team who either can't dodge skill shots or goes too aggressive, dies, gets mad, and then blames me for not healing them. Before her rework, yes this could be more my fault, but since her W no longer heals for quite as much and her Q isn't instant health, spamming heal hurts me much more than it heals you. Plus, there is a cool down which is short but not spammable to the point of it always being up, partly because each heal costs 10% max health. Yes if my Q's passive is active you heal for more, but that is reliant on landing the Q in the first place (if you kill everyone while tower diving then I can't get the Q's passive to boost the heal to counter the tower damage). Also, unlike many popular champions right now, i have no movement abilities that can hop walls, so dont expect heals from outside the dragon pit when you dive over.

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Draqone22 votes

What is way more frustrating is when your low health teammates kite away from you in a fight and then are like "Why no heals?" [slayer-jinx-unamused]

crippler381 votes

every time I see raka she runs like a mini flash with that passive of hers q.q

lost so many kills because of that

Maximum Morde10 votes

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Tychusfindlay9195 votes

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Upvoted because I found the title "cancer goat" hilarious

Maximum Morde1 votes

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Hello I am Bird1 votes

I thought it was funny ;-;

Doctor Jarvis6 votes

Honestly, I agree. But you know WHY they think that? Everyone has had a Soraka in their game, telling them to stop being pussies because, goddammit, they're Soraka. There's an equality to the problem, I think

JavelinJoe9 votes

There is a balance somewhere, but personally I would rather have a passive ADC than a dead one.

Doctor Jarvis1 votes

Im inclined to agree. Im just saying that after awhile a stereotype of Soraka players emerges, you start overestimating their heals because they do, etc. It's a buildup of a few things.

JavelinJoe1 votes

yeah and with masteries you never know how much of a heal she gives at any given time since it is a DOT

Cabalist1 votes

I would refer Soraks Heals as HOT (Heal Over Time) But hey, heals r heals, not kayle ults

50000000000000001 votes

Yep, especially since a Soraka lane is a farm lane. No reason to try to kill the enemy.

Krinu1 votes

I don't know, Soraka can be a nasty lane bully with the right setup.

Depending on my opponents, I'll sometimes start with FQC instead of coin, some mpen on my runes, penetration instead of CDR on my masteries, and pick up sorc boots early. The 35ish magic penetration that gives me means that during laning I essentially have an AoE true damage nuke... on a five second cooldown.

Partholonian1 votes

Lane bullying is usually not about killing though, it's mostly about zoning for cs denial. You only get to kill them if they're REALLY bad about staying when they're already low.

TotalJerk4 votes

I actually have the opposite issue. I often find my ADC is to afraid to make any aggressive plays in lane despite the fact that I'm right there to heal off anything they can walk away from.

Penguin Eclipse4 votes

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I actually have the opposite issue. I often find my ADC is to afraid to make any aggressive plays in lane despite the fact that I'm right there to heal off anything they can walk away from.

That too can be an issue. A lot of ADC's do not know how to properly balance their playstyle around the class of their support.

MrWasjig2 votes

A lot of ADC's do not know how to properly balance their playstyle around the class of their support.

So much this! I know how to balance my playstyle around my ADCarry as a Support main, I just wish this was more common among ADC players [zombie-nunu-tears]

Odinakos2 votes

I hate when people go all in when i am playing as Janna. I dont have any burst, just take a favorable trade and pull back. Do it a couple of times and when they are low go for the kill.

DarkRitual1 votes

This is why I hate playing ranked. I want to get out of bronze, but I can't rely on random people to know how to do basic adc functions, let alone how to duo lane properly.

TotalJerk1 votes

Then duo or suck it up.

DarkRitual1 votes

I do. One way or the other.

Gimpy891 votes

This is a terrible mindset and you should try to loose it if you want to climb. Focusing on others mistakes prevents you from seeing your own and working on them. Every game minute you make loads of mistakes and you should realize them and work on them (i still found many mistakes in plat). Also the mentality that "my team is useless i need to solo cary" is not one that wins games. It is a team game. Communication and working together is valuable.

Aír4 votes

I main Soraka and I know the feels.

At this point, I always tell my laner that my heal cd early game is 4 seconds in hope that they aren't too dumb.

Laughing Fish2 votes

Even if you do that, ADCs will still charge a Brand/Graves combo and be like: https://media.riffsy.com/images/850841ea606bd13d9064e51b222a6b57/raw

And you will be like: http://cdn.gurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/stop-it-gif.gif

Aír3 votes
Laughing Fish2 votes

Which is when the ADC declares that they could win lane without you, and for you to just roam. https://media.giphy.com/media/weYRI9k5s0TXW/giphy.gif And they always are pinging for help less than 3 mins later.

warpenguin5554 votes

Oh I love those people Loses trade "heal me" loses another "heal me" loses another and dies. "Report this noob raka."

Baby Ghoul3 votes

I had two games like this today alone. Soraka can help you sustain and out trade. However if you run blindly into the jungle you're going to die the same as with any other support.

What I noticed is people get way too carried away. They think they're the ones carrying our lane, when really they don't know how to CS or kite. Then they dive 1v2 at half HP when both the ADC and Support are at full health.

Soraka can fix a messy bot lane, she can't fix stupid.

It's ridiculous. These ADCs then turn around and scream at Soraka when they lose a trade they were destined to lose from the beginning. They are primadonnas.

We all have poor games, but you can tell the difference between someone playing poorly, and someone not using their brain. I'm certainly not going to make the enemy ADC worse by dying with that person.

UGH and when people don't realize that Soraka's W has a range limit and a cooldown it drives me nuts, especially early game. "No heals????"

I've had several people in my games that don't realize that, and even if you don't know her kit, common sense should tell you she can't heal someone who isn't next to her without ult.

EvilRabbitt1 votes

My frustration is a little bit nooby. I like to play Nami. My adc wants me to burn all my mana on healing them instead of protecting/peeling and providing engages. Then I get "wtf, y u no engage". Siiiiiiiiiiiigh. I will start maining one shot leona top when death timers are less ridiculous...

DorkunedAuras1 votes

how does one-shot leona top work/build?

EvilRabbitt1 votes

Idk yet but I know how she works in aram :P its all crit stuff. ie/trin/shiv/lrc/lw/greaves

Penguin Eclipse2 votes

Unfortunately people who don't play Soraka don't really understand how she works. They think you can just heal for nearly unlimited amounts for an unlimited amount of time. They don't understand her range limits or how her health management works. Especially since she has been changed. It gets better in higher elos but people still have unrealistic expectations.

I find it is similarly bad for Nami. People have come to expect her to heal as much as Soraka while also being able to provide CC. But her mana costs are too high to constantly be healing. It has become highly problematic because you have to choose between either being constantly low on mana and not being able to use your full kit when necessary or saving your mana and letting your team mates take excessive damage. Either way she can lose and teammates will likely rage.

Tuplamela1 votes

This is why I run mana regeneration quints on Nami. The AP won't help you that much, but the extra mana regen allows you to spam heal while keeping your CC available.

DarkRitual1 votes

I run some mana regen Reds. It's not a ton, but supports dont have a ton of great rune options there anyhow, and it's enough to get a few extra spells out.

ArlanKels2 votes

WHY NO HEALZ REPORTED SORAKA REPORTED

Pontifex Ph0enix2 votes

Don't worry, your teammates might not be able to dodge the skill-shots, but your enemies can't dodge what they don't expect. And no one EXPECTS the banana. Soraka

JavelinJoe1 votes

I think you missed most of this post. Soraka is not meant to be a source of free, infinite health, she has plenty of infinate health to give, but it is not free.

Pontifex Ph0enix1 votes

Yes, I understood the post, I was simply making a joke XD

chipndip12 votes

Imagine being someone with a worse heal with the same problem:

Lucian : Heal me already

Sona : You do realize I'll go oom if I touch W like...twice, right? I can't use it for patch jobs.

Lucian : Do it anyway. Something is better than nothing.

Sona : heals for 30-40 health

Lucian : backs

Now I just randomly throw it out sometimes so they sort of get it on their own that Sona can't patch major damage.

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Honestly I don't mind if you are going a little more aggressive so I have something to do as Raka, but that doesn't mean you should start playing like a dummy and eat the most dangerous skillshots.

I mean, especially after the heals are no longer "instant", but rather "DoT".

JavelinJoe1 votes

wish more people played around that instead of the old way

Athenes Lulu1 votes

Maybe they forgot about Raka changes, and assumed that she can still insta-heal.

Good ol' times.

Partholonian2 votes

A depressingly low fraction of players even read patch notes, let alone remember the notes for champions they themselves don't play.

LordGeovanni1 votes

soraka has one worse healing than sona currently and worse late game healing than taric

JavelinJoe4 votes

Worse in the case for instant health, but more in terms of total healing. Also where a Sona is more offensive based and taric is defensive, Soraa is utility, which is neither offensive or defensive.

MisterShameless1 votes

A team of melees with soraka on the team vs a poke comp in aram lol

JavelinJoe1 votes

pokes still win unless the melees have shit tons of cc and snowballs

MisterShameless1 votes

Tanks would outscale the range once soraka and her team can make it to late game. Maybe if one of the tanks were a trundle and/or nautilus. Starting of that game would be terrible lol

JavelinJoe1 votes

lol so a shit ton of cc, but I get your point.

hi im minty1 votes

Annoying when you start out and you have 0% cool down and they say "soraka you didn't heal me fast enough. you suck"

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