Problem in lane against Soraka and Caitlyn traps

Nomaron··3 votes·1,331 views

Hello fellow summoners,

i play support champions as main and i really like my job. Normally i have alot of fun doing it, wheter i loose or win. At the moment there are 2 very big problems that make playing support utterly frustrating. Soraka healspam and Caitlyn traps.

Soraka

  1. Soraka healspam If you play Soraka passive and you dont push to far into the lane there is no way you can be killed wihtout making terribel mistakes. The cooldown and amount of heal is far too strong. Trades dont make sense in this lane for the enemy because they can only loose. Soraka stays at the back and heal, silences engages and makes the game boring and frustrating. The near inifite amount of healing forces you to wait for ganks or pick Ignite to counter her heal. In teamfights later on its even worse, without constant hard cc or being far ahead you wont win fights. The other side of this is falling behind isnt as bad as with other Champions. You still have your heal and silence to counter engages on you and your global heal is an advantage for all other lanes at the same time.

TL;DR A passive soraka is no fun to play against because in normal 2 vs 2 all you do is healed back in few seconds

Caitlyn 2. Caitlyn traps Let's keep this one short.

  1. Sivirs Spellshield blocks the debuff, Morganas Shield does only block the root but not her headshot bonus
  2. You step on a trap under your own tower, headshot, next trap ready. Counterplay without gank? 404 Counterplay not found

Am I missing somehting that would help me against those 2? I'd appreciate your feedback.

EDIT: I really like playing Caitlyn myself and liked playing Soraka but atm i just feel like a terrible person picking her in lane.

3 Comments

Caítlyn2 votes

Caitlyn traps have no counterplay lmfao

They are literally sitting there FLASHING RED. RED = BAD If you step on a trap its your own fault and you deserve to die.

Garison1 votes

From my experience the best way to winn a lane vs Soraka is a lock down support like Leona, Thresh or Nautilaus and a burst adc like Lucian or Graves but yeah, if you fail to burst her down it's probably gonna be double kill for their adc. You can also not push your lane and make them come closer to you and tell your jungler to gank then. If you want to lane vs caitlyn just take soraka as support and make your adc step on traps, as adc buy early sustain (vampiric scepter) and farm, she is a bully and if you don't have much experience on bot don't try to kill her. I hope these help !

Serevas1 votes

There's two ways to deal with a Soraka lane.

Don't bother fighting at all and just farm it out because you'll just lose trades with her healing.

Pick very heavy engage in bot lane with ignite and go for a kill lane.

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