I am gonna cry, I cannot do anything in lane as Raka anymore.

Wofye·12/8/2017, 11:35:52 PM·3 votes·444 views

The fact that everyone's damage is so absurdly high, paired with how squishy Soraka is, means I cannot interact with my lane opponents anymore. I used to be able to have extended trades and try to go for level 2 as Soraka. Trying my best to be a lane bully and distract the adc from being able to farm, but I just cannot do that anymore. Lvl 1 against any matchup it seems I get poked to half my health in an INSTANT if I try to auto attack and Q, I'm not sure what I'm doing so horrendously wrong, but it seems that the best thing I can do now is get coin and just stand behind my ADC and do nothing but try to get levels so I can be useful later, or try to help my adc poke if he wants too (coming out unfavorably of course). I don't understand why Riot wanted supports like Janna or Soraka to be more interactive in lane but then nerf them indirectly by buffing damage everywhere.

Oh, and heal and shield items are being nerfed, so instead of 40% HS , we'll get a 31% if you choose to build all 3 items. It's also an indirect nerf to Redemption as well as it scales directly off of Heal and Shield items. The top WR supports are tanks too so I don't even understand this much. Riot said they believe that these supports are too reliant on these items, so then is there any sort of compensation for this? If not I have no idea why they are nerfing my late game as well now that my early game is taken away.

I'm afraid I might get disENCHANTED (GET IT HHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUU) with the game if there are no plans on putting strength into their kits then if they want to take out strength from the itemization.

/Rant

8 Comments

Winterwings12/8/2017, 11:48:08 PM1 votes

Welcome to the club, pal... Ik how you feel cos im in the same boat... Well similar boat tbh...

While the nerfs to H/S items will surely hurt, they won't affect me AS MUCH cos i go with item 3303 line into item 3174 rush every game, only getting H/S power items AFTER Athene's. (What can i do, i just love Athene's as a item concept)

Still, feels bad that i have to annoy my ADC's to go Revitalize in their second rune tree each game to have some effectiveness with the amount of damage flying around currently...

Hammermancer12/8/2017, 11:55:40 PM1 votes

try going adc raka, it's better

Lunar Lunacy12/9/2017, 12:30:25 AM1 votes

I had a raka giving me a heckofa hard time the other day when I was playing leblanc, because during the 1.5 second delay on my burst raka could silence me and heal my target back to full.

I don't know about in lane, I guess it depends how good of a raka you are?

Alex h872112/9/2017, 12:59:48 AM1 votes

Soraka a lane bully? wot? perhaps you are thinking of Lulu or Zyra

xPhantomDancerX12/9/2017, 3:27:16 AM1 votes

And this is why I always dodge when I get a soroka on my team.