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Is Soraka really THAT terrifying?

zXr666·9/30/2016, 8:59:07 PM·4 votes·1,062 views

I know Riot likes to 'balance' champs around 1% of its player base, but in all honesty why keep killing Soraka??? Soraka's 4.17 Update WAS great, even after much joking about her not being able to help regen ally mana anymore. She has been getting nerfed unreasonably since 6.5 (Basically a champ rework).

  • Patch 4.17 - Soraka Official Rework -Yay!
  • Patch 5.24 - Soraka Star Call range reduction 950 -> 800, Astral Infusion cost +20 for each rank. -- Understandable.
  • Patch 6.5 - Pseudo champion rework = Major Nerf -- Extremely Unreasonable
  • Patch 6.7 - Reverted the Star Call cost to 5.24 cost, Astral Infusion cost +10 for each rank. -- Keep on swinging that nerf bat...
  • Patch 6.9 - Major nerfs to Starcall, and interaction with Windspeaker's Blessing all because of the 6.5's pseudo champ rework on Soraka - Yes, lets nerf an entire skill because of how we broke the interaction of a Keystone with a terrible change in 6.5 to the ability.
  • Patch 6.19 - Hard Nerf: +4/+3/+2/+1 seconds on her Astral Infusion CD ranks 1-4. - Thinking Soraka could not get any worse to play, we are given this update.

Does someone over in Riot have a vendetta against Soraka or something? Probably the same one who has hard-ons for Ionians and Darius.

16 Comments

LadyRenly9/30/2016, 9:19:50 PM3 votes

people just hate soraka because they hate seeing dedicated support types that help other team members. Soraka makes the game 4v5, but she buffs the other person up well enough to make up for it, and hate seeing their all ins "denied"

I'd rather face Soraka than Leona or Blitzcrank. Tank supports are just annoying.

Leblancs Boob9/30/2016, 9:38:21 PM2 votes

She makes games extremely boring and stagnant. I wouldn't mind more nerfs tbh

JayHog19929/30/2016, 9:15:55 PM2 votes

Honestly, completely dumb. Supports are meant to create pressure from early game and then just be assists mid to late. Now Soraka can't do shit early game.

Had to buy Morgana on my NA smurf because of how useless Soraka is now. If you can't do your job of harassing the enemy early game, there's no point in playing her.

TyrekGoldenspear9/30/2016, 9:34:58 PM2 votes

Bloodthirsty players just hate getting their blind all ins negated. <.< So its clearly Soraka thats the problem instead of their overactive aggression.

Requiemsfire10/1/2016, 10:23:27 AM1 votes

All nerfs deserved ;)

Honestly, if you actually look up the tier lists made for league of legends which is updated she still retains her status as a god tier pick due to her passive play where she would stand behind her allies to heal them. She is more passive than janna with even more of a toxic gameplay pattern.

Rivuo9/30/2016, 9:11:17 PM1 votes

Soraka is extremely hard to balance. I still hate fighting her because theres so much hp regen now that the 12% heal isnt as much in lane so shes always spamming W

Fashion Mage10/1/2016, 10:24:12 AM1 votes

The changes made to her in 6.5 pretty much went against a variety of design philosophies that were used when she was reworked in the first place. I'd imagine its because different designers mini-reworked her again and completely ignored the old designers (Morello and Vesh) who knew what they were doing, one of which doesn't work on champion balance anymore (Morello).

I don't think the patch 6.19 nerf was that bad though, since she was doing a bit too well (especially in laning phase). I'll be fine just as long as they don't nerf the power of her healing in its final form.

Catastrop9/30/2016, 9:21:18 PM1 votes

I did not "Yay" when Soraka first got reworked in 4.17, if anything I gave a very sad "Aw."

Maximum Morde9/30/2016, 9:23:17 PM1 votes

She's cancer. Revert her rework.

Akali is SO HOT9/30/2016, 9:57:09 PM1 votes

She's pretty aids to play against and makes laning phase boring and uninteractive.