Astral Infusion (W) cooldown increased to 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 from 4/3.5/3/2.5/2
^ this is it. this is what should have happened a year ago. thats all we need. i'd probably add one more second but i will take the double cd at max rank.
shes a heal bot. reduce what makes her a heal bot which is spamming w late game on tanks and squishies
moonborn4 voteswell i personally believe this will kinda kill her entirely. it's difficult to balance a champion that is 75% about healing, when there is already a cheap 
that adds eternal exhaust to her.
Söraka2 votesSoraka is perfectly balanced. There's more to it than heal: right positioning, hitting Qs and map awareness for ult. The heal amount has been recently nerfed anyway, and if you are saying to increase the CD and the heal at the same time, that's not a nerf at all, because the less W is used the better (as it cost 10% of her max. health).
If you reduse what makes her a "heal bot", then what is she ? Most supports which have healing spells, have other kind of spells as well: Sona has damage and CC, Taric and Alistar heavy CC etc.. However, I'm talking about the main kit, so even thought Soraka has a slow and a silence, she can't rely on these as a basement kit of both laning phase and late/teamfight, as mostly her Q is only to heal herself prior to using W.
In high-elo (Platinum+), most supports laning against Soraka take Ignite along with Flash as Summoner Spells, the same way some ADCs build Executioner's Calling early in the game. You probably don't know how frustrating it is to know that your heals are reduced by 50% almost every fight, but think about this: an item similar to Executioner's but which reduces all your damage by 50%, instead of your heals.
As an off-topic, if you were/are a World of Warcraft player you'd know that healers are the main focus in battles. Of course, WoW is not LoL, but it's just a good reference to how important healers are in a game.
MunchCrunchLunch2 votesSoraka is perfectly balanced. There's more to it than heal: right positioning, hitting Qs and map awareness for ult. The heal amount has been recently nerfed anyway, and if you are saying to increase the CD and the heal at the same time, that's not a nerf at all, because the less W is used the better (as it cost 10% of her max. health).
If you reduse what makes her a "heal bot", then what is she ? Most supports which have healing spells, have other kind of spells as well: Sona has damage and CC, Taric and Alistar heavy CC etc.. However, I'm talking about the main kit, so even thought Soraka has a slow and a silence, she can't rely on these as a basement kit of both laning phase and late/teamfight, as mostly her Q is only to heal herself prior to using W.
In high-elo (Platinum+), most supports laning agains Soraka take Ignite along with Flash as Summoner Spells, the same way some ADCs build Executioner's Calling early in the game. You probably don't know how frustrating it is to know that your heals are reduced by 50% almost every fight, but think about this: an item similar to Executioner's but which reduces all your damage by 50%, instead of your heals.
As an off-topic, if you were/are a World of Warcraft player you'd know that healers are the main focus in battles. Of course, WoW is not LoL, but it's just a good reference to how important healers are in a game.
she has the highest winrate of any support and one of the highest playrate. what the hell does that mean?
Söraka1 votesThat does not mean she's broken. For example, Amumu seems to be to the top in low-elo, yet he's not broken at all.
MunchCrunchLunch2 votesThat does not mean she's broken. For example, Amumu seems to be to the top in low-elo, yet he's not broken at all.
amumu isn't the highest winrate jungler and his playrate isn't ridiculous
Fashion Mage2 votesHer allied healing is the last thing that should've been nerfed.
LankPants1 votesThis is basically halving Soraka's power. It's the same nerf as halving an ADCs base attackspeed, and not just any ADC, a heavily AA based one like Jinx. It's way too far, if these nerfs go through Soraka will be the worst champion in the game.
manbearswine1 votesThe support circlejerk is strong on these boards.
Calabok1 votesthis is a good thing for us all and GTFO space goats!