[Suggestion] Soraka

I think Soraka's E, Equinox, takes too long to root. The rework put Soraka in a really good place, but I think that a few changes could really put her over the top and compete with some of the really strong supports in the meta. Right now, i think she is okay in the laning phase, but really lacks pressure to compete against even some of the lower tier supports. when she gets low it's hard to sustain back up because hitting starcall from it's max range is extremely slow. So once you get poked down you immediately lose all lane pressure because even using heal is a scary trade off. Soraka Now

1) Currently, you can place Equinox and run through the entire diameter of the spell without being rooted.

In most cases champions can run through the root with boots, even when the root is placed in front of the enemy champion. in some cases you can run through the whole root without boots at all.

2) Soraka is very weak when she gets caught or focused

When Soraka gets focuses in the lane she is very weak. If Soraka gets chunked it makes healing the Marksman a very big risk and loses a ton of pressure. her only form of sustain is through her starcall which is very difficult to hit, unless she casts it on herself.

**Counter arguments: **

1) the equinox activation time is warranted because the whole area provides a silence. the silence gives a lot of utility when trying to flash, caitlyn let, trist jump, lucian dash away.

Proposed solutions:

1) Adding a shield after healing an ally. This allows for stronger trading scenarios, and a much stronger and less dangerous risk for using heal. I think this isn't too much to put her over the top because you are still essentially losing the hp, but it really makes up for the weaker trading in lane. Xpecial actually originally made this suggestion.

2) Making the health cost lower for each consecutive heal to a maximum of 3 casts. For example first cast cost 10% second cast cost 8 and the rest consecutive casts cost 5% max health if it is casted within 3.5 seconds or something along those lines. I also feel like soraka loses health way too fast. It makes building health and casting heal hurt you more currently.

3) lowering the root activation as you level equinox. I think that allowing soraka to get more roots will help her lane pressure tremendously. It would allow for Soraka to break out of her, sit back and heal / farm lane / boring play style and add a lot of calculated aggression and strong cc for ganks and teamfights. The sacrafice for having the extra pressure would be losing a point or two to get the root activation to the point where you cannot just walk through it.

Similar spells

Viktor's gravity field has the same activation time as Soraka's Equinox but the slow actually allows the cc to be effective. Cho gath's Q has a very short activation time, leaving time to avoid the cc but not allowing one to walk right through it.