@Vesh Does Soraka's Q now used a fixed travel time cast paradigm?

Quantum Weeb·Nov 20, 2014·4 votes·1,975 views

If you haven't been following red posts about her, you're probably thinking "What the hell is a fixed travel time cast paradigm?" It basically means that a skillshot will take the same amount of time before it hits no matter how far away from the character you target it, like Nami's Q.

Currently, this is not the case for Soraka, her Starcall hits faster if you target it closer to her, just like Twitch's W. Vesh stated that it was getting changed, but there was nothing about it in the patch notes. Was this simply missed, or was it decided to keep the current cast paradigm? I don't really have feelings one way or the other, but it'd be nice to know without having to test in a custom game.

7 Comments

RiotMeddlerNov 20, 20144 votes

Starcall having a fixed travel time's a change we tested internally. It didn't hit the mark though, hence it never made it to PBE testing, let alone into the final patch.

PaperMache7Nov 20, 20141 votes

What was strange about it? The current iteration just feels wrong to me.

mcjaggerNov 20, 20144 votes

I think this is the right call.

When Soraka is under pressure and champions are sitting right on her or next to her, she can hit them with the center of her Q nearly every time, applying a slow and giving her a chance to get away.

To compensate for the slow travel time, she has pretty absurd range on her Q, giving her opponents the chance to avoid it at max range but also giving her the reward of restoring health if they don't.

I like the way it works a lot currently.

Quantum WeebNov 20, 20142 votes

Thanks for the quick response!

eztarg3tNov 20, 20142 votes

Awww, I was kind of hoping we would've gotten to see that tweak.

Remlap1223Nov 20, 20141 votes

But you were ok with gutting her silence's cooldown time? Explain. Soraka was far from being in a good spot.

SiachiNov 20, 20141 votes

Didn't see anything about it on the patch notes either.

Maybe they just want to see how the buffed heal range affects things to see if she really needs the Q buff (That said, I would still like for it to be fixed travel time if possible)