Soraka Rework thoughts yo.
Gonna post this here as well since the PBE itself has a very small audience
Okay so let me just get this down play by play since i'm a little disappointed by this. I'll do this by each move and then i'll go on to talk about the whole gameplay beginning to end. First off. Passive: Wee WOOOOOO i really like it, though it really did seem like a nerf since the fact that her old passive directly impacted how much she healed an ally. but other than that i really like running at 500 MS to my little lane buddy. Also it would make me feel a lot better if knew how much of my armor and magic res was being converted into AP if thats possible.
Q: Okay so her q's affects are amazing, but i'm really pissed at the q's casting speed The q is easily dodged by anyone with boots and i found it very hard to land it to get the heals off i needed to stay in lane (Which is kind of sad seeing as the dedicated heal can't heal herself reliably) Also what else kinda cheeses me is that the slow is only applied when you hit the champion in the sweet spot middle. My suggestion would make the slow a lot less effective but make it for the whole spell. Also speaking of which, if you really want to make her heal this way, i'd rather have an increased heal on myself if i hit the sweet spot than a slow (I understand the damage, but it kinda ticks me off that this spell is her only form of damage)
W: Her heal i like, it's balanced, you can cast it like masochist madman ready to give blood to vladimir's sweatshop. you can't kill yourself but you can keep everyone around you in such health that your sacrifice may just carry the team. However i'm still irked that you can't heal yourself with this (it'd just be odd in general) but yeah the range on it is balanced by the fact your fucking ambulance. next spell lets go
Edit: The only problem i have is the heal's cost seems really high (health wise) why not making a climbing heal. The more she casts it in a certain amount of time, the more health percentage it takes from her. Just an idea Rito
E: This spell sounds amazing on paper but go does it feel like i'm spending a lot of mana for a lot of nothing. My main complaint with this is that you have to set this up with really good starcall and as i've said befre holy hell you've got to be browsing facebook to be hit by that thing. I was wondering if it was possible to put some damage on the ending binding or some kind of debuff attatched to it just something to make it feel like the spell is worth your mana and effort. just. The spell needs a lot of work. Loads of work in my opinion.
R: its the same. Though i would like an indicator near ally portraits to which ones are affected by its passive. just something that would be nice.
Game time. I had a hard time deciding what to do with runes and masteries so i decided to run her with normal runes but with magic pen blues and mana regen quints (oh god did it help)
Beginning game: Theres not much to her early game, her q puts out the harass a bit but it gets outclassed alot due to its huge mana costs for the damage, and since her healing passive is on her w and not on her q, putting any more into it feels like a waste early game. So you have to play a really passive laning phase which is expected of soraka, except, she can't keep herself sustained, and to this effect she can't keep her lane partner sustained. This is kinda a problem in my eyes, since playing passive means you have no intention on harrassing for the most part but you want to farm. and its hard to do that when you can't seem to stay healthy through that process.
Mid game: I did a lot of roaming cause of ambulance WEEEEE WOOOOO. problems i had at this point were as such: Her damage output compared to her CC is kinda just dissappointing even with a rylais her kit feels like its lacking what it needs to get help to everyone. It's kinda giving me this idea that taric might have a better kit currently. yes soraka is vulrnerable and she can't solo lane i get that, it just seems like her damage is so negligable that she needs to be a tank. yet her W and passive kinda refuses to let that happen. so i'm confused as to what i should build on her and to what effects i should be getting out of her kit.
End game: This is where she just.. Falls of the side of the planet. Her E is no longer of any use what so ever, and since it has a long cooldown it won't be very useful for a long time after its casted. her w is still used to heal people just to a lower affect, and since so much damage is going down you'd probably die while trying to keep your friends alive as well, and her q just feels so out of place at this point of the game. Woohoo i have a small aoe that has this really small spot of extra damage and a slow.
These are my feelings I like the direction that soraka is going but she needs a LOT of work before i'm really just satisfied with her. What do you guys think? (Yes i know my shit is rambly deal with it) WEEEEE WOOOO WEEE WOOO
