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Can Soraka be effective.

Redcadaver·11/3/2014, 3:43:42 AM·2 votes·432 views

I do love Soraka and with the right situations she does come in handy. Her ult when building AP ensures that the team will always win teamfights (granted you live long enough to do it). Playing as Soraka support teaches you patience and picking the right moment to poke which is awesome when learning, but as of right now it seems her job can easily be filled by other supports.

I have attempted different build from full AP(which works late game), Tank Raka, and Sustain Raka. While I believe I can adept at playing her, she does have many draw backs that really hurt the team more than help it. While she does bring heals to the team, she is very squishy and over healing will make you a very easy target. When not building AP it feels like the heals and attacks(like that matter in the long run) useless near late game.

She feels very depended on communication with the ADC which makes it very hard for solo Q. I personally find her AoE Silence to be useless if your losing or even winning as it takes far to long to finally stun. I personally would love the old E over the new one.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to play Soraka without her being a crutch and more of a play maker.

2 Comments

MattAkhavan11/3/2014, 5:11:59 AM1 votes

Currently, when you play soraka it has be a situation pick. For example, you would pick soraka into fiddle sticks so you can silence his ult, or silence him after he ults so he cannot fear.

As for buffs that would make Soraka competitive vs other supports I would

1) Lower activation time of equinox (e) as you level the ability.

This allows soraka to really put some pressure down because currently you can walk through the entire diameter of soraka's equinox without getting rooted.

2) Increase heal range it's just too small

3) grant a shield or every heal this will allow more trading with heal rather than taking double damage

4) For each consecutive heal, the max health is lowered by 2.3% to a minimum of 5% max health. (3 stacks) This would make building tank soraka NOT be counter productive. no matter what your health is 50000 or 500 you are still losing 10%. when you are losing 5000 instead of 50 it makes using heal very unappealing.