I've been playing Soraka lately in solo queue as well as with friends and been getting a lot of complaints from enemy team and surprisingly from my own team. Complaints such as:
"SORAKA OP"
"GLAD SHE'S GETTING A NERF"
"EZ HEAL OP"
"HEAL OP ;_;"
I mean I myself think that her heal is pretty strong, but a nerf???? I mean she already does zero dmg as when building 
and ap items. If anything her Stun needs some dmg boost.
Soraka is nerfed in the next patch. Someone said there are nerfs on her in the PBE already. That sucks, cause I main Raka, and landing her Q is hard enough against highly mobile enemies. not to even mention, that unless you build her tanky, she is squishy as hell imo. I love Raka. I love playing her. I love healing people and making sure they survive in team fights as long as possible. So while Soraka is being nerfed, Q made smaller etc, support champs like Sona roam freely, with hardly any skillshots needed and healing everyone in her aura. That kinda sucks.
I honestly think, that people who complain about Raka being op, are the ones who just have no idea how to lane against her. I play Soraka a LOT, and am fairly good with her too, but as a result, i also know how to kill her.
Soraka is easily killed and blocked IF you just know what you are doing.
I just love how they re-worked her whole kit because they said watching Soraka heal the enemy teammates you worked hard to damage "isn't fun", and they added crazy self-heals to pretty much everything else that's been changed since then. It's all good fun as long as they heal themselves (by attacking enemies with weapons)? Or something?
The massive nerf to Talisman of the Ascension hit her really hard. She still has Ardent Censer, but that extra movespeed and gold generation made that such a critical item for her. Now you might as well just get Eye of the Oasis.
If I were an all powerful being I'd lengthen the cooldown on her W but make it more powerful and cost flat rather than % health.
Soraka doesn't need nerfs, she's fine.
People always forget that she pretty much deals negative damage so healing and zone is all she really has. She struggles to kill minions for fucks sake, ever tried to stop a big minion wave as support Soraka? It takes so many Q's and your E is useless. She is 100% defensive with no realistic offensive capacity which makes it piss easy to lane against her, and sure you're unlikely to get any kills but who cares, just farm in peace and enjoy the tranquility before the chaos of the roams and team fights start. And at that point if you play smart in your positioning/vision it can be very easy to catch her and she has no escapes.
Currently her heals with the right masteries can just barely save your lane partner if he gets caught early and you react perfectly, sometimes you even have to use items for movespeed to save his life. Nerfing her numbers or cooldowns will spell disaster for her.
It's not her dmg, it's how intense her burst heal is for being on such a short CD. She was somewhat manageable when Grievous wounds worked against her heals, now she's just out of control.
Except, her heals aren't getting touched, except for a slight mana cost increase at all ranks. Honestly, they won't really change soraka that much. The big nerf to soraka is the nerf to Windspeaker's Blessing.
she's fine where she is. no nerfs,no buffs,no rework.
The annoying thing about her kit is that even when trading with soraka she can just heal it back with q. But she counters poke lanes and that's what a sustain lane is meant to counter. If you go a kill lane like a brand or zyra support than she will lose hard.
I think a lot of people don't get that sustain > Poke > Kill > Sustain... in the botlane.
She doesnt need damage. I hate how people thing healers need damage. I played a game recently as Raka and healed For 13.2k (game we lost and it was fast) The thing is their MF had only delt 12.8k damage which was the most on that enemy team. She doesnt need damage because she effectively removes the damage of a carry from the other team well still. Oh and to top that off I did 2.8k total damage and no one on that team healed for nearly that much other then the jungler (jg item, redsmite, ect.)
That being said if they reduce her healing a way to balance her would be more damage.
You'd think this would be common knowledge by now. Her winrate has been 50+ for the longest time now, even if her ban-rate hasn't gotten worse than the 5-10% range until recently.
tbh... ardent censer is just a bad item on soraka imo. there's absolutely no reason to build it unless you're at your last item and have two enemy nexus turrets left. The reason being that you have to buy so many other items for your team, as well as getting max cdr, and then building situationally for whatever the game needs.
People that complain about her are just stupid and don't know how to focus her over the ADC, she is squishier than them and can't heal herself, so anyone with a brain would focus her over the adc.
She isn't any stronger than what she has been back in S5, and no one cried about her than. Its funny people cry about Thresh being in every game, but no one wants any diversity in supports. Just Leona, Thresh, Nautilius, and Morg, ohh no if Raka or Sona tries to join in. They OP, but we will cry when the same 3-4 are in every game.
Why does everyone say Soraka does no damage?
I always go AP and never level W, because it doesn't scale. I take E as Support and Q in Jungle, then the other. I can duel Assasins and Marksmen alike.
And becasue of this I don't mind them upcomming nerfs much, I won't notice the mana on W and the range reduction on Q is actually a QoL buff, because it make the synergy between Spellblade Q and W easier, I don't have to worry about proper positioning, casting will automatically assume the right distance.
More than damage itself they are nerfing the range of her self sustain so she can't keep both champions at full hp all the time, or at least that is the logic behind it. In reality I don't see many sorakas go for the self heal unless they are running some werid masteries, her own health regen and the ones coming from teh masteries are enough to keep her at decent hp so it shouldn't affect much her gameplay
