Wishes for Soraka

There was a small blurb about some changes to a few supports with the upcoming mid-season update. One of the mentioned supports was Soraka. Soraka was my first favorite champion, I love the healer mentality, I was always the white mage, I was always the cleric, I was always the medic and Soraka was the only champion that allowed me to meet that fantasy in LOL. I had to give up on her recently because damage was so insanely high that I could never heal anyone (they kept dying in .1 second) and was reduced to using E to silence enemy teams. I want to be clear that I enjoy the healer fantasy and no other champion meets this except Soraka and she has HUGE penalties for doing this. I mastered dodging and positioning skills just so I could continue to play her when she got her update and although it may seem easy it was not. There was always huge pressure to not get caught and it was the most rewarding game play I have ever had in LOL. No other champion comes close to fulfilling the healer fantasy like Soraka.

This brings me to my wishes:

**More powerful scaling interaction between Q and W. ** Granting Rejuvenation to allies should be stronger later in the game. W is powerful all on it's own but really good Soraka players know to add this bonus to your heals as well. It feels good in the early game when damage is lower but feels really weak (almost useless) later. The danger of Soraka being out of positioning often makes this really hard to apply and the heal over time becomes really weak when most champions die in 2 or less seconds. Instead of increasing the heal over time why not reduce it the further into levels she gets? The extra heal getting applied faster would help her a lot.

A meaningful passive. It makes a great meme for the banambulance but 70% ms bonus when moving towards an ally with less then 40% health rarely has any impact. It has saved an ally on occasion but very very very rarely. In addition this passive is completely in conflict with Soraka's R. There are a lot of options for passives and as Soraka is LOLs only designated healer I think it could be more impactful then what it currently is. I would love to see her passive tied into her old identity of granting mana but perhaps that is too much.

Scaling Q to E interaction. Soraka is the healer but when the enemy team's damage is high because the RNG gods granted the enemy team 3 infernal dragons there is literally nothing Soraka can do. Before the enemy get a lot of mobility Soraka can be pretty aggressive with Q and place an E right behind them trapping them. You can never do this once your enemy has an item or two. I would love an interaction between Q and E that scales the slow that can be applied making it a bit easier to land the root CC of E in the late game if you level up Q and E instead of the healing route of Q and W because the enemy team has a fed assassin. I like my healing but it has become too common that healing is not an option due to high burst damage and it would be nice to have other play options.