@Riot- A request for Soraka's Equinox

IcyPepper··16 votes·695 views

I believe that Soraka's Equinox spell should effect jungle monsters, but not minions, or at least the cc with reduced damage. Vayne can use her E on monsters, Voli can use his E on monsters (tho he is intended as a jungle), and even Kalista can rend monsters.

I think this change could make Soraka a niche, semi-viable jungle particularly for premade teams (rather than solo queue) by making her more interactive. Her passive will get more use, both defensively and offensively, rather than just getting to a fight faster like support Soraka already does. Due to the high cooldown of her ult, the fact she uses health to heal others, and her already abysmal clears, I don't think letting her jungle will make her a non-interactive (farm all day, press R occasionally) champion, but actually increase it. Her passive will be useful for ganks/counter-ganks without being too overpowered, her heal will still hurt her and make her vulnerable to mid and top laners with stronger early power if she comes into lane just to heal an ally, her E is excellent for ganking and has counterplay (the whole "walk out of it" deal), and her R will retain its utility in teamfights, but won't be too oppressive and still leave her open to counterjungling if she decides to farm all day.

Since her rework, she can't really go into other lanes with her entire kit (particularly her W). Not that this is a bad thing, since we remember her old... problems, on both sides. By allowing her to jungle as well as support, she'll have plenty of interaction with her team and the enemy, and I think this could lead to interesting team comps.

Now, I know it's currently the tank meta and whatnot, but this change wouldn't be game-breaking. Dedicated jungle mains can make almost anything work, but a small change to Soraka's E could make her clear times slow, but reasonable.

15 Comments

freeformline3 votes

Being able to use E on monsters would be pretty nifty, but what I would really like to see is being able to heal off of starcalls cast on epic monsters. I often feel pretty useless when taking Barons on Soraka simply because I can't contribute much damage and can't afford to be healing the allies that are tanking the monster for me. There might be problems with bot lane Sorakas heading to dragon for low-risk heals, but I would think even that would be punishable enough to not be problematic.

Of course, it's fine if she is simply not intended to be able to use her heal in such fights without being really vulnerable, but I think it would be a fair option to consider if Soraka ever needs a buff.

IcyPepper3 votes

That would be interesting, and kind of Warwick (since... the old lore and stuff).

The sustain off her Q isn't uber amazing, and I doubt it'd need too much tweaking considering how much monsters hurt in the jungle.

FourVsFive1 votes

she dont even need to gank she can just go to every lane and fully heal them lol

IcyPepper3 votes

and then have to immediately B or risk getting invaded, 'cause her health regen, lack of jungle sustain, and losing health per heal is just asking to get invaded.

Trust me. At least she has to show up in lane to heal her teammates, and that gives the enemy an opportunity to kill her for every heal she attempts.

Kitty Darkstar3 votes

Soraka struggles in the jungle. But maybe I'm just saying this because I've struggled playing her since the rework. But, on the other hand, I know that Leona is pretty good in the jungle.

I know I'm off topic a bit, and I don't care.

IcyPepper3 votes

No no no, I don't mind. You just reminded me that I've jungled with Morgana and Soraka, but not Leona yet despite my friend trying it out ;~;

The passive is useless for clears, but the ganks are to die for.

Kitty Darkstar1 votes

Hextech Gunblade is surprisingly helpful for clearing.

IcyPepper1 votes

Too bad it's terribly expensive ;~;

Kitty Darkstar1 votes

It's kind of worth it though, but it might be better to build after you have the jungle item and one tank item... Sunfire is also really helpful for clearing.

IcyPepper1 votes

I go for on-hit AS Raka.

item 3726 item 3153 item 3091 item 3006 and whatever two items.

You got a nice jungle Raka build that's better? :D I'd love one to try out!

Kitty Darkstar1 votes

The only time I tried Raka jungle I went AP..... and that wasn't so good.... so I don't know much about that

IcyPepper1 votes

Aw ;~;

I miss the good ol' AP Raka mid/top days, but I understand why they changed her.

Besides, bananas. Beefing up her bananas in the jungle only makes so much sense! :D

Sydelle1 votes

Dood, I just want all the changes on Raka reverted. I've tried getting into her but she got massacred.

FourVsFive1 votes

I just played a game using soraka jungle, it worked, she sucked at ganking... but it still worked, we won. I can see allowing that ability to do dmg to monsters help a lot for her jungle speed though. She does not have any real good crowd control to be a OP jungler anyways so i can not see it being a bad thing.

IcyPepper1 votes

she sucked at ganking

You didn't use your ambulance passive to throw bananas o.O

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