Rework Soraka is frustrating to play
**1. Everything she does feels clunky ** You want to move through jungle. Random surges of speed. You want to heal an ally. Get punched in the face. Healing again. Too bad, they weren't in lap-dance range. Trying to land a Q or E? Sorry, opponents have a brain.
Every skill except her ultimate has a noticeable, and annoying drawback. Her Q and E are near impossible to land against a conscious enemy because of the massive delay. Her heal is ridiculously limited; arguably the worst in the game. If an ally is near death and 10 feet away, they die. If you are at low life, you die. Her passive is just random, and only needs to exist because the heal is so short ranged. The snare on her E may as well not exist for how often it lands.
**2. Next to zero out-play potential ** No character relies on their teammates as much as Soraka. If your ADC is bad, Soraka is by default going to be bad. Other supports can land a skillshot to set up a kill or use a signature skill like Morgana's Black Shield to change a fight. Soraka has none of that. ALL she can do is heal, Q, heal, Q, hope E lands, Heal, Q.
This means in teamfights she does less than pretty much any other support to change the enemy teams gameplan. The game becomes 5 versus slightly tougher 4, rather than a true 5v5. And even then, Soraka's heal hurts her more than it helps her allies, so the illusion of toughness is just that. Soraka is entirely dependent on her teammates making the plays to win any teamfight.
**3. No correct build path ** Support items - Suicide AP items - Suicide Tank - Alive, but useless ADC? - Well she'd at least do damage and have lifesteal for her W
4. Playing against her Can you kill her? Yes/No. If yes, she is useless. If no, her team seems much tougher. She's binary and offers very little outplay for opponents as well. Her poke doesn't really matter, but she makes games feel grindy for both sides.
4. Conclusion
Playing Soraka isn't playing League, it is spectating in a very annoying way. She can only heal, and she does THAT worse than almost every other healing character in the game. Her buildpaths and skills are clunky and nothing she does is satisfying. Thresh can land a pull, Sona can ult an entire team. Soraka can heal herself to death, or watch a teammate die. Her clunkiness, ineptitude, and sheer lack of individual impact make her fundamentally unfun to play. She is also pretty unfun to play against.
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