The Importance of Grevious Wounds

Lost R··2 votes·391 views
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Getting Soraka to Mastery 5 should be very easy if every opponent is like this.

And they usually are.

I even started trying to openly help the enemy team with what item to build to counter me, since they didn't seem to be able to buy a fucking clue. None of them did it; why am I not surprised?

Okay, number drones. Take a look at Soraka's numbers. She healed 41K damage in this game. In total, the enemy did 117K damage. Imagine that whatever she heals takes away from the damage that the enemy team did. That's roughly equal to a THIRD of the enemy's teams entire damage output.

If you break that down even further, Soraka healing ALONE entirely negates the efforts of two or even THREE champions!

And not a single person bought a Grevious Wounds item. It's not like they couldn't have done it; they had three ADs and one mage where the Grevious Wounds items would have been perfect on them.

Instead, people will just continue to complain that Soraka is too good at healing and needs to be nerfed and is a no skill freelo autoreport champion and blahdeblahdeblah.

3 Comments

Maximum Morde1 votes

Its irrelevant. She's going to get nerfed, and deserves it, because she's overperforming. Even in ARAM where she has permanent healing reduction her winrate hovers just short of 50%.

TheLittlestLulu2 votes

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Its irrelevant. She's going to get nerfed, and deserves it, because she's overperforming. Even in ARAM where she has permanent healing reduction her winrate hovers just short of 50%.

idk why people ever use ARAM as a metric for game balance

Maximum Morde2 votes

Eh, it's not a perfect comparison, but it's the only mode where healing is cut down so significantly. Just saying, if she can still do within acceptable tolerance in a mode where her primary function is so nerfed, then her numbers on maps where it isn't, probably need a look.

I figured everyone already knew that Soraka was literally the highest win rate champion in the game right now(55.42%), pulls a pretty high play rate(12.9%), and is the only support pulling a banrate worth mentioning(19.55%), so mentioning it wouldn't really be adding any value, but if you insist :P.

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