(inspired by Chaoswlkr)
Change soraka's heal from burst heal to regen heal over a short period of time. Put a shield on top of it which lasts for the duration of the heal. If the shield is broken, the heal stops.
Now, @Riot, you have some more levers to play with.
How fast does it heal? How much is the shield? Does the shield decay?
Sightless661 votesSo, the big problem with this is that currently Soraka is designed around staying close to her healing target and spamming heals on them rapidly with a very short cooldown. If we switch that to a heal over time effect, then it completely breaks that design apart because of the overlap in the application of the heal over time effect. If we left the heal over time short enough that the effects overlap, then it's such a short duration that there isn't really a point in having it be over time. Functionally, very little changes. If we lengthen the cooldown of her heal, then we make it much easier for her to kite away from enemies and we have to redo all of her numbers (the %max hp cost in particular doesn't really work well with longer CD heals).
On top of that, it has other significant problems in how it goes too far in compromising some of the unique principles of her design. Soraka's unique thing is that she's the only healer good enough to save a life through healing. If she can't do that on someone being focused, what's her function later on in the game? Why have her? What is she doing that everyone else can't do too? Are we going to turn her purely into a sustain machine? That was her gameplay before the rework, and everyone hated it, including the people playing her. On top of that, it's already the role of other healing supports, and just having higher numbers isn't enough to be really special in that department.
I don't think a viable solution to the problem can be found here.
Jessey1 voteshow about when she heal someone , she can't heal that person for 6sec like udry stun. when he stun she can't stun same person for fer sec
TotalJerk1 votesChange soraka's heal from burst heal to regen heal over a short period of time.
They already did this partially. IMO the problem now is that they overloaded her Q.
All of this makes it an respectable kiting tool that boosts her safety when she already has godly sustain and makes nearby allies impossible to kill if you don't take her out first. Another random thing to note is that she's tied for the highest base mana regen at level 1 in the game. Before they nerfed the mana cost I noted that it took her roughly 10 seconds to completely recoup the lost mana from Q with no items.
Then there's her E that basically makes it suicide to ever dive her unless there's no chance of allies following up. You jump on her? She drops silence on herself and sits in it until her allies show up to peel, leaving you completely unable to continue your combo.
