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Soraka is cancerous design

feintfiend··11 votes·2,014 views

How the hell is pumping out 400 health heals on a 1.5 second cooldown remotely healthy? Usually people respond with the argument "just focus soraka" or "just dump all your abilities onto her". However when you do this you're letting another enemy have free reign of the teamfight whether it be a fed tristana, jax or veigar. If you even try to kill soraka she and all of her team will instantly heal nearly 1000 health when she clicks R?? Tons of healing may work in other games like MMOs but healing on a level this ridiculous has no place in a MOBA. At least give her heal a real cost, the health and mana cost is nothing since she gets a ridiculous amount health and mana regen from enchanter support items(which are lowkey overtuned atm). Not to mention she can easily fit a zhonyas into her build making you autolose a fight from dumping everything on her.

Give Soraka's heal an increasing mana cost like Kassadin's R so it isn't as broken. Either that or buff grievous wounds.

20 Comments

Moody P12 votes

People will not ever admit that Soraka has been toxic and unfixable since the rework but you're right

feintfiend5 votes

I don't know how people teamfight against soraka and think "wow this is so healthy"

Moody P3 votes

don't forget the "fairer" instant AOE silence field that roots you if you can't get away from the tank keeping you on top of it

truly an epic win champion

The thigh guy9 votes

Considering everything instant kills this immobile champion with VERY conditional cc, she’s perfectly fine. And just a FYI. There is a 800 gold item, a 1500 gold item and a 1000 gold item that shuts her down entirely. Might be worth investing in them.

feintfiend8 votes

Nope she isn't fine. Yes I agree damage is overtuned but soraka is a HORRIBLE bandaid fix to this and teamfights against a soraka just feel shitty since you know you'll autolose if they have a brain. Grievous wounds need a buff the healing reduction isn't even noticeable. At least give her heal a sizeable mana cost or soemthing like kassadin R so she isn't an unlimited heal battery

The thigh guy3 votes

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Nope she isn't fine. Yes I agree damage is overtuned but soraka is a HORRIBLE bandaid fix to this and teamfights against a soraka just feel shitty since you know you'll autolose if they have a brain. Grievous wounds need a buff the healing reduction isn't even noticeable. At least give her heal a sizeable mana cost or soemthing like kassadin R so she isn't an unlimited heal battery

Again. Squishy, immobile, no reliable hard cc. Is hard countered by cheap items. Uses her own hp to heal. It’s not hard to deal with a soraka.

She doesn’t even fix this damage meta. Everyone dies to a fart so 9/10 she doesn’t have any time to heal them.

And grevious wounds is fine. 45% reduced healing litteraly deletes heal based champions like her and red kayn from existence.

Raquan7 votes

As an enchanter abuser myself I can confirm Soraka is broken.

feintfiend6 votes

Based and redpilled tank support

Who is Taliyah6 votes

Well there are grievous wounds on an 800 gold item item 3123 pretty good counter if you ask me.

feintfiend6 votes

Grievous wounds need a serious buff. Soraka's and many other champion's heals seem to be "balanced" around building grievous wounds so they're insanely strong if you don't build it but when you build it(sometimes making your build suboptimal) it doesn't even put you on an even playing field.

Boltonator3 votes

I don’t know about you but I remember when her “E” restored mana without costing mana...

THAT was broken.

Hammermancer2 votes

I thought you meant because she grows on you

eventually you'll be running dark harvest raka with item 3285 item 3124 item 3115 item 3165 item 3089 item 3020

Moonscourge2 votes

A champ without any agency herself is broken.

Ha.

Haha.

feintfiend4 votes

Haha nice joke! Making your teamates never die and healing them to full in seconds sure is low agency!

Done252 votes

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Haha nice joke! Making your teamates never die and healing them to full in seconds sure is low agency!

Because Soraka is intentionally balanced by having fuck all for HP/5 regen. A whopping 2.5-11 HP/5 from level 1-18. For comparison Alistar has 8.5-22.1 HP/5.

And if she's in range to cast Q she's in range to be attacked.

Done252 votes

At level 18 with redemption Soraka has around 1.8k hp. Every 400 hp heal costs her 180 HP. So there's really only a team gain of around 220 HP. I get more than that just by hitting Q as Yorik. Not to mention Soraka herself tends to die to a harsh sneeze.

feintfiend4 votes

Funny how you convienently aren't factoring in the her ridiculously high HP regen from support items and spammable Q Oh wait you main enhanters what a coincidence!

MasterLico2 votes

{quoted}

How the hell is pumping out 400 health heals on a 1.5 second cooldown remotely healthy? Usually people respond with the argument "just focus soraka" or "just dump all your abilities onto her". However when you do this you're letting another enemy have free reign of the teamfight whether it be a fed tristana, jax or veigar. If you even try to kill soraka she and all of her team will instantly heal nearly 1000 health when she clicks R?? Tons of healing may work in other games like MMOs but healing on a level this ridiculous has no place in a MOBA. At least give her heal a real cost, the health and mana cost is nothing since she gets a ridiculous amount health and mana regen from enchanter support items(which are lowkey overtuned atm). Not to mention she can easily fit a zhonyas into her build making you autolose a fight from dumping everything on her.

Give Soraka's heal an increasing mana cost like Kassadin's R so it isn't as broken. Either that or buff grievous wounds.

nice shit post

xDogMeatx2 votes

nocturne/warwick ult in the same team are her main counter duo. karthus also if she wants to pull a stars hear me NOPE button. put those 3 on your team and see if she wants to heal anyone.

Ravenhale1 votes

I play Soraka on occasion and I don't particularly feel like I'm that influential. Sure, I might delay the inevitable demise of my allies whom struggle with proper positioning. She certainly feels like a champion that becomes more effective with the skill level of your team. Kind of a "win harder" champ.

I still cling to the old RoA/Warmog build that eliminates the health cost of healing allies. Takes a bit too long to get there though.

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