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New Soraka

WhompieWomperson·9/26/2014, 12:10:40 AM·2 votes·1,122 views

I saw the changes to Soraka, and after reading them, and trying her back when it was on the PBE, i have to say i cannot play the champion anymore. Soraka was my favorite champion to play, but after this rework she i feel lost her identity of being the teams protector, and healer, now she seems more like a donator of hp (which I'm fine with), my biggest issue is that basically all i ever learnt about playing her (which is 2 years now) has been put down the drain, and well I don't feel motivated to relearn a champion that i spent so much time learning how to play correctly, the in's and out's of her build. Basically I'm just extremely unhappy with the changes made to Soraka and would love it if you guys at riot might re-tune a bit more of her old identity into her, or take something really similar to the old kit, and make that into a future champion.

TL:DR - A long time Soraka player hate's the new kit, and would like old Soraka back

8 Comments

TastyDragon9/26/2014, 12:38:07 AM1 votes

I dunno, I gave it a couple test runs today because I was kinda skeptical about the whole thing, but it turned out to not be as bad as I thought. Servers are pretty poopy for me right now though so it kinda hurt my initial reaction. She deals a crapload more damage in teamfights and, while she can't mega-buff someone's armor anymore she can sacrifice her own health to keep a high-priority ally alive, like the tank or someone squishy who took one too many crits (by which I mean got critted once late-game)

Her passive is pretty bad though, I will say that. Unless they're a tank, chances are when they're under 40% health it's already too late for the MS boost to help much.

Also, AoE silence into snare. and a slow on her new Q. She brings a lot more utility to a team now.

If I could pick one thing to tweak, it's the speed her Starcall travels when cast at max range. Ain't nobody gonna be blind enough to get hit by that, let alone be hit in the inner circle.

TastyDragon9/26/2014, 12:57:50 AM1 votes

Actually, with the majority of the supports currently available, old Soraka had a very tiny gap she could fill. And then they nerfed the damage on her Q and added mana costs to attacking with her E, two things that greatly reduced the number of Soraka players. Saying Soraka wasn't meant to deal damage is the same as saying Lulu isn't meant to mid or top... it wasn't intended but people found out it was a better way to go.

And I would say that now Soraka feels like a combination of old Sona , reworked Xerath , and herself. She has more to think about now than "Build tanky support, run in, absorb damage while spamming Q, heal when needed, spam more Q". She's still a protector of sorts, she just handles differently and due to her method of self-healing, is in a position to build more defensively to support that. The only downside is thanks to the changes, she is terrible to play as support. She will steal CS like a Sona on crack, trying to poke with her Q to heal herself after healing that ADC that made a thousand and one rookie mistakes in the first five minutes. She does pretty well in a solo lane against immobile or siege-type champions, from what I've seen.

...I bet new Soraka could wreck Riven top lane since she can shut down any engage Riven could try with the silence-into-snare, as well as a slow that she can guarantee a hit with either at melee range or after the snare triggers.

Stacona9/26/2014, 5:38:22 AM1 votes

Soraka prior to 4.17 has been insanely overpowered and even more boring to play - people would only play her for free wins, she was so boring to play that despite her being so blatantly overpowered that competitive play wouldn't even play her unless they really wanted a boring cheap free win