Can someone explain why they like the new soraka to me?
I'm just trying to understand why people still like her, much less why riot forced a polarizing rework on her fanbase.
- can't self heal very well (only heal is dodgable and is on a long CD until you rank Q later)
- slow as molasses
- can't dodge skill shots that well because of two
- can't escape from people with movespeed or dashes
- easily kited by low allies running the wrong way (can't do your job)
- can't heal allies well once enemy is past your front line (if you have one)
- an easy kill if you are using her W heal.
- Large mana cost when ranking Q. Large health cost on W.
- no mana gift anymore
- If you have low confidence in your allies, you really don't want to press W, negating her healer theme entirely.
- If you heal an ally and they still die, you are a huge risk for giving up a double kill.
- Low chance to secure a kill if your carry dies on you because you are lacking in damage and honestly, you've probably hurt yourself a lot to try to keep him alive.
- No armor buff and no MR aura anymore means her heals have lower EHP so healing a squishy carry means he can still be bursted easily because he's got no armor.
Most importantly, I'm curious where the little fun found in her kit went. I don't see it anymore. I've been trying to play her, but every time I do it seems like her flaws are glaring and her strengths are dim. I mean some days I can work around her, but it's getting to be more troublesome. Spamming W, hitting B, then running back into lane is not a fun gameplay style for me.
Sometimes I wish we had a proper primary healer champion that doesn't die trying to keep teammates alive.
she owns to Endure with maybe in the opinion stated not owning much to qualify on wanting her to back people up in battle if she is low with fighting ability. Fact in my game play when this is me:
: as this empowers me with the capacity to own the First Citizen Responder level of game play I find intriguing, but maybe my teammates might oppose. Especially when the games are more intense with the higher level of ranks, or the lopsided team lineups when trying to be a teammate with 
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) have ms, so I tend to actually be the fastest on my team. It helps a lot to go fast.
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and 
. Get those and you become 100% worthless because your heals are tiny due to lack of ap and your self-healing is nonexistent.
Really, the fun is that your healing is beyond compare - several times higher than the next best. Q heals you for most/all of your health bar, especially if you hit multiple targets. W is not only the largest non-ultimate heal per-cast, it has the shortest cooldown on one too - and the health cost is easily negated if you build ap and avoid health. And r is the biggest heal, and it removes grievous wounds! Not even ignite can stop you! All of this while maintaining a decent amount of peel with her Equinox and the slow on her Starcall, which is exceedingly easy to land on someone who's chasing - close and going in a straight line. And if they swerved... good job, you peeled.
I started maining her since the rework - her kit is almost exactly the "dream kit" I imagined long ago. Health donation + insane self-healing by fighting your opponents.
isn't healing you fast enough, drop in front for just a second in-between cd's and starcall 'em. It's true that it's more effective to poke Soraka than the adc, but you also don't have to put yourself in harm's way to be effective.
