Is Soraka in need of another rework?
So with the introduction to the buffs for griveous wounds that happened in season six and with items such as
being very very gold efficent
feels very weak when compared to other heals such as
or
. I believe the main cause to this is largely because Sona and Taric may have a heal they spam a lot, but it is not the core part of their kit. If you suddenly removed their ability to heal people they still have a list of other options to provide their teamates. Taric can still stun or shield his allies, Sona still has damage to pop out and a heavy cc ultimate to create picks that is fairly easy to land.
However 100 percent of what sorraka does is cordinated with her healing. Her Q replenishes her health, her E heals allies, her R heals allies. The only ability in her toolkit that has a theme outside of healing would be her silence/snare. Because of this with items like
being so efficient to build against her she really becomes a one dimensional character that is easy to counter. I feel Soraka shines best on comps with tanks that can peel and protect her. But even then you want to know what
turns into?
a tank killing item, so
becomes even more gold efficent for the enemies AD players for now they get a item that can stop healing and kill the tanks.
This is not me saying
is broken. It's perfectly fair. Champions such as
are still relevant even when such items are built on the enemy team. But this is because they aren't one dimensional. Vladimir has burst and dive capabilities, so even if he can't heal as much as he would like, he is still a damage threat, swaine has cc with his rooting ability and taric and sona can stun people. They aren't characters who suddenly become useless if healing is countered. But on a character such as
where 70-80 percent of your toolkit is defined by healing teamtaes or yourself,
just becomes a impossible item to deal with.
My solution is not to nerf
it's a fine item, and
seems to be the only champion suffering frmo it. So it seems unfair to change a entire item for the sake of a single champion. So instead, I believe it's time we give the goat lady a new toolkit that does more than just be a simple white mage. It's time to make her more than just a one dimensional character who spams the E button twenty four seven.
and
or
on her just to give a bit more staying power in the jungle and when counter ganking.
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. Most likely because an ADC has less HP than most of the enemy team, making
