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Soraka PBE changes aren't the best

Pandaaii·2/9/2020, 1:23:14 AM·6 votes·1,363 views

I looked at the nerfs to Soraka's "Q" on the PBE changelist and to me it doesn't really make sense. In my opinion, what makes Soraka a great support is not just the great healing, but also the ability to poke, bully, and harrass. Because she is ranged and can lane bully many melee counterparts, it's the reason why she is the best at Top Lane. But, the nerfs to her "Q" is going to nerf her really hard. Like, HARD. She will no longer posses that "lane healing bully support" title in the bot lane and the compensation to her "W" doesn't feel like it compensates enough. She won't have as much health or mana to even cast "W" anymore because of the hard nerfs to her "Q" (which is essentially the only way Soraka does damage). I have an idea though, hear me out. All of this probably sounds like bull-crap, and you can decide for yourself on that one, but instead of nerfing the base damage and healing, have it so that Soraka can't be solo. I'm talking along the lines of "if Soraka is not near an ally champion in x units, then her "Q" damage is halved and mana cost doubled" so this way it hardly affects support role, but removes her from top lane. Hopefully a rioter sees this, this is just an idea of mine of how to nerf Soraka top lane.

5 Comments

Shiroyashayami2/9/2020, 1:38:07 AM3 votes

They nerf and buff wrong things for years now. I really can't tell where they get their info from because it has no reflection in reality.

Baby Ghoul2/9/2020, 2:03:10 AM3 votes

The funny thing is the first nerf to minion damage was perfect.

It solved the problem of Soraka being able to abuse top lane, but admittedly another bandaid to top lane.

However, these new nerfs/buffs are a hit to Soraka support. She is meant to be played like a lane bully early game, and she's kept in check by the strict meta bot lane. Right now engage supports like Nautilus can kill you with one hook and mage supports like Zyra can do so much poke damage. If you're standing back and healing as Soraka, then you're going to get pushed out of lane so fast.

Soraka cannot outheal that kind of damage early game without being a broken champion. She's perfectly balanced now because she has to work for the insane heals she gets and the enemy team has time to build anti-healing for her later in the game. They don't have to sacrifice their damage or main build and Soraka has just enough heals and utility to keep her going until she gets to her goal.

Her Q is already one of the easiest abilities to dodge bot lane due to the slow missile time. It should not have been nerfed further. She needs to be interacting in lane, and since she doesn't do high amounts of burst damage, she needs that self-heal and speed boost. I think the mana cost is going to hit the hardest though due to how slow her Q missile time is.

Basically they're creating a situation where they're going to have to buff her heal to make her playable, which will make her a healbot again, and that is toxic to deal with.

They're recreating a problem that they fixed years ago.

RavageRose2/9/2020, 1:36:27 AM1 votes

the problem with healing units in this game, is just it is simply hard to balance.

I think instead of her dealing damage with Q to restore her health, change her Q to give bonus AD an AP stats to an ally, an when they deal damage it heals Raka for a portion of that damage dealt. you can also have her Q do a little bit of damage an maybe lower offensive stats for a time if it hits an enemy. just make it a skill shot. (both healing, an dmg dealt could be increased a bit by her AP bonuses) That would make her way more of a support role, rather than being able to be abused as a top lane bully vs melee, who no matter what will always be of use. Make her actually have to be with other units to be of use as a support.

Done252/9/2020, 3:11:09 AM1 votes

I'm actually okay with her changes. Her maxed W, especially with 40% CDR, causes her to hemorrhage HP in fights. Q now heals less, but you'll save more HP if you're blasting out Ws off CD thanks to the 0% HP cost under Rejuvenation.