Soraka changes - keep some potential for sololane... pls?

Platurt·2/10/2016, 11:26:46 AM·2 votes·520 views

Now with the recurring changes on pbe I'm getting a little bit worried. Now I know she isn't meant to be a toplaner but I rly liked playing her there sometimes (ofc just in normals with friends^^), placing the silence field in front of her when the enemy engages, then having him snared and again unable to damage you while you get 2-3 Qs and the heal that comes with them... it is awesome! Sure the toplane shouldn't be the focus of her balancing and no one wants a pre-rework soraka on the sololane again, but given how often riot goes for diversity in lol recently I thought sololane soraka might be a nice little thing to keep in mind.

But now with the rework and the double w heal if you transfer it in the last frame on an ally (that will be a pain to time right btw), it rly is an insane nerf for sololane soraka, what is kind of unfortunate imo since it probably wasn't intended. What it does is basically reduce her leveled Q cost and make Q hits regenerate some mane, which is fine, but on sololane there are also some big nerfs like the heal now being over time instead of instant, the Q slow reduced, the heal being reduced (no longer increases based on missing health) and the Q sweetspot damage is comepletely gone. Especially the last part hits her hard since the Q was the only ability that could damage minions, so by leveling it first and buying some AP you could actually push the lane and onehit all 3 caster minions, which was nice. Without the sweetspot, this will be pretty hard to do which just adds on her getting bullied in lane even more due to less damage and weaker heals, so overall worse trades.

Like I said, I don't want her to completely dominate toplane, but letting her keep some strength she had there wouldn't be too bad imo. Especially since she wasn't a big problem there in the last months anyway ;)

So at least I don't think it would be that insane to give her a bit more damage on the Q in exchange for some mana costs or a health/mana regen nerf if hit. Or maybe something like making her deal some extra damage to minions, as long as that isn't enough to make support soraka onehit the minions^^

11 Comments

Duke Anax2/10/2016, 11:40:36 AM4 votes

I think it would actually be a buff to her solo lane because you now get more base heal from leveling Q and also mana.

The slow, while weaker is more reliable and I never needed the swetspot damage for killing minions, Jungle is a bit harder though.

Photos of Ghosts2/10/2016, 3:17:06 PM2 votes

Don't say "obviously only in normals". You're supposed to play whatever you want wherever you want. Just depending on how YOU are effective with it, you shouldn't care shit about how well OTHERS succeed with it. And it also has the bonus thing of being a flamerbait. You get people to flame you for your pick, which is unjustifiable bullying, so you get them punished, which is a life lesson.

Healurownbum2/10/2016, 1:13:58 PM1 votes

I really thought she would get stronger in solo lane cause she can skip leveling W and go Q E till laning phase is over. And with some good AP the heal over time and mana regen seem pretty strong.

Or am i missing something that i overlooked?