Complaining about Soraka? READ THIS!

Don't think of her as a healer, but a battery. But not only is she a battery, she has strong mechanics with an instant silence field, delayed root, and slow. If you absolutely need to heal people with no excuses, then you can still press R, and you can't even be reduced because it /first/ removes all heal reduction.

She is the extraordinary "healer" of League, and needs extraordinary costs to match that. Mana and cooldowns just aren't good enough. So you need to recharge your Soraka battery.

Potions and biscuit / alchemy masteries are the easy way. Soraka's lvl 1 dream is a match where the enemy jungler probably can't help their bot lane early, so the first-buy Ward is less important and you can start more potions.

The best way is to land your Q's. But the abilitiy slows down the further you try to cast it, even though ti has good range. This is part of the cost of being the battery. It's like a mini-game of trying to ninja-throw your recharger into the wall-socket.

Think of it in another way; on any other support, your HP is still a resource. You spend your HP in pokes and forcing trades. Your enemy hitting you is better than them hitting your ADC.

Soraka is a support that spends this resource in a different way, but is still spending it just as much as any other support. She can sit back and eat her delicious biscuits, and has ranged spells so she's never forced to get close like a tank support, or a Sona who wants to Power Chord.

Soraka gets along with both aggressive and "let's farm for 20 minutes" ADCs. Draven and Vayne always want to be in position to capitalize on a mistake or a moment of opportunity, so they'll probably take more damage than Ashe or Caitlyn who have the range to farm and poke from a safe distance. Caitlyn or Tristana will love Soraka fi she can just stand there give them a safe and healthy lane to farm. Farming your way to mid-game is a lot easier when your ADC has two health bars!

But Soraka's true power comes when you realize just what is capable with her Silence Field. She's actually a big nuisance or outright shutdown to powerful champions like Zed, Yasuo, Riven, etc. who have a habit of Crowd Controlling themselves. They think they've just jumped onto a squishy and are ab out to 100% insta-kill them; in reality they just fell down your celestial well and Lassie is not here to save them.

She is a huge, HUGE plus for champoins who already dominate with CC. Did your lane opponent step on a Caitlyn trap? Caitlyn will thank you for not having to hear them cry about how much it hurts. She just wants to kill in peace. Sheis a plus to anybody doing anything. Is somebody about to jump or flash out of an AOE? Not if Soraka has anything to say about it!

I haven't even talked about her passive. But I feel like that's enough for now.

If you still want to complain about Soraka after reading this, go ahead, but she's strong and is even carry potential IMO.