Soraka

MoltedShadow··3 votes·607 views

Can we talk about Soraka, like at all? I am a player who like to be flexible, in playing all positions, I try, and yes, I need improvement but you wanna know who needs more improvement- Soraka. I was just playing Soraka because I felt like healing for the Lunar Revel quest, I completed the quest, but it was the worst game I have played in a long time, I'm not god, but that game, even though we won was trash. Early game I lost every trade bot because I healed my ADC, I was confused why I was always low health, then I read this - W - 10% of max health + 50- 70 MANA to only heal 80-200 health with a crappy scaling of .6%, now this seems decent on paper, but not in game, I was getting smashed by a Janna, all she did was auto me. But its ok guys, my Q heals me for 14-22 per second for 4 seconds if ur opponent can dodge the 4 minute missile drop- I'm exaggerating, it it'll slow them for a amazing 30% for 1 second. Now I don't want to leave out the fact that if you hit ur Q on an enemy and heal an ally they get that rejen also. Or I could poke Janna with my E, which provides a silence for the duration, then roots them if they're stupid enough to stand in the bright purple circle on their screen, then they'll be root for 1 SECOND! up to 2 seconds- this ability isn't as bad, but usually people don't stand in it, but its good in a teamfight. To be honest I am really not that worried about her late game, it was ehh, but better than her terrible and unbearable early game- Can we please get a Soraka buff? that 4% play rate should tell you something, it's not the worst, but its no where near good.

4 Comments

Leylania2 votes

Can we please get a Soraka buff?

As someone who abuses Soraka for the second season in a row for freelo: Hell NO. Soraka does not need a buff in her current state, she needs a rework. She is boring to play and absolutly toxic to play against but this champion does not need a buff at all as she is right now (talking about lower elos for this). From Bronze to Gold she is the most braindead champion in the game since no one ever focuses you, no one ever builds any GW items and you just outheal whatever your team is doing wrong. What she needs is some skill-related abilities that does not make her only spaming W the whole game and some other form of reliable utility that does not get countered by GW. But just a flat buff to her current abilities would break her.

Btw if you lose against a Janna you are just bad at her. Janna is one of Sorakas most easy matchups in the game since she is basically no threat to you at all. If she walks up to you and tries to aa you just give her a smack with your Q and a aa and you won the trade. Jannas with Ignite and W max can get dangerous though if you miss your Q too often.

I also don't see a reason why you would ever want to build Abyssal mask on her as you did. Especially not with your team compossision and the enemies having basically no ap. That was probably one of the reasons why you felt bad playing her. You should also start Q on her for the early harass and after that max your W.

MoltedShadow1 votes

Yes, I am bad at her, I'll admit it :l But my point is, as you said I feel a rework would be better, but I don't think they're ever gonna look at that again, also the Abys Mask was just buy, troll if you say. But I don't know I didn't feel impactful early because Lucian was taking a bunch of damage and healing it made it so I had to back off, i'd like to see like a Taric Mechanic on her heal, something that stack and cost mana instead of cost 10% of your health.

Der Lindwurm1 votes

Soraka's a lot weaker in the early game now. She runs out of health and mana fast and often has to stick her neck out to land a Q. Once she has some levels and some items that turbocharge her health and mana regeneration, however, she can make a huge difference even without much AP.

I wouldn't say to buff her outright so much as play around a bit with her abilities and their costs.

What really killed Soraka for me after the tremendous success I had with her when I was first starting to play support was when they changed Tasliman of the Ascension (and now it's just plain gone altogether LOL).

dreadedcape1 votes

If sorakas r or ult worked different like id say shed need some earlier numbers but late game 235s and 300s every w at the cost of her heath when so many support items build out of heath its kinda... she'll get her time in the sun but don't push it onto her or your just asking for a volatile answer.

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