Soraka Needs More Stars

Witch of Babylon··2 votes·322 views

FYI: This is not a give Soraka buffs rant, it is just how her Star theme and all doesn't really fit her current kit. Hopefully you can read what I have to say about her before thinking I just want Soraka buffs.

Soraka should be able to spam more stars. Cause she's the STARchild right? Her old Q fit her theme very well. Yes I know, her 1 second heal is what fits her theme but she used to feel so powerful. Now she's just a heal bot who doesn't feel too fun to play as or against. At times she is very fun but I feel like when she isn't fun she doesn't feel too good to play as. At the moment, her Starcall only makes 1 star, decent base damage but horrible scaling, very hard to hit when used from far away, heals for a mediocre amount and makes you a tiny bit faster and has a 5 second cooldown. This sounds good, but when you use it it doesn't feel like you are a Starchild. You call down a single star and thats it. The heal and the very small speed boost doesn't do the job. She used to call down mulitple stars, do a lot of damage when used a lot, shred MR, had a much lower cooldown was targeted and reduced the cooldown of your heal. It fit her theme very well compared to her weird star thingy today.

My idea:

My idea is to change her current Starcall but keep her from being too op. I feel like this would make Soraka overall more fun and would fit her Starchild theme very well. And this would make her easier to play against but still very effective when played as.

Starcall:

Damage - 70/110/150/190/230 -> 80/105/130/155/180

Ability Power Scaling - 35% -> 45%

Cooldown - 5 seconds -> 5/4.5/4/3.5/3 seconds

Range - 800 -> 725

Impact Radius - 235 -> 200

Land Delay - .25 seconds to 1 second -> .25 seconds to .75 seconds (it'll go slightly faster at long ranges)

Rejuvenation heal - 14/16/18/20/22 every second for 4 seconds -> 8/9/10/11/12 every second for 5 seconds but can stack heals 3 times (for example, Soraka uses Starcall 3 times on a champion, each time you hit a champion it refreshes Rejuvenation and gives you another stack. This means at 3 stacks, you'll be able to give Rejuvenation to an ally which gives 33 health per second for 5 seconds.)

Rejuvenation heal Ability Power scaling - 40% -> 20% each stack (60% Ability Power scaling at 3 stacks)

Astral Infusion

Heal - 80/110/140/170/200 -> 70/100/130/160/190

Context: Soraka is a Starchild and always will be a Starchild. But this idea capitalizes on that making her feel more fun to play as and feel more powerful as a champion. Her old kit did this very well and I wanted to try and do the same idea. Soraka also has been a strong pick and is still a good pick today, but when you face against her it does not feel very good at all. I wanted to do a more high risk high reward idea. Be more interactive with your opponents trying to hit stars, getting 3 stacks then healing your ad carry. The Rejuvenation buff is an interesting idea but it doesn't feel good enough. You have to be a little closer to get the Rejuvenation buff but Starcall will be relatively easier to hit and you will have stronger heals for using it over and over again.

I'd like to see what you guys think. I thought this would make Soraka less horrible to play against, be more fun to play as and you will feel more powerful. This will also make Soraka feel like a real Starchild like her old kit did perfectly. Hopefully you guys can give some things I can change because I'd love for Riot to notice this.

(have mercy pls)

1 Comments

Linna Excel1 votes

Now she's just a heal bot who doesn't feel too fun to play as.

Yes, I tried warning riot that before her rework they were making a mistake on her kit, but they decided to make it anyways. I mean the heals are good if you can live with the health cost, but it never really fixed the fact that she was a passive babysitter that people hate to play against.

She probably needs another rework based on giving her a new heal.

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