Suggestions for changes for Soraka

Ok, so I would like to talk about a champion, that has been reworked quite long time ago and since then returned to state of being forgotten. The champion I mean is Soraka.

Since last year, Riot reworked a lot of champions -Sion, Ashe, Ryze to name a few. Most of reworks were fine and succeded in improving the champion. But, there were also some fails, one of which I would like to talk about is Soraka. I would like to adress what is wrong about her now in my opinion compared to what she was before.

Let's start with her passive. It is good, not as great as the old one, which made your heals more effective depending on how much HP target is missing. This one makes you run much faster towards low health allies. Kinda nice, you can get to them to heal them much faster. Sometimes unreliable, but other than that, it's good.

But then, we have her Q. I see what you wanted to do here, Riot. Old Soraka's Q was just a star machine gun, you just spammed it like it was Cassio's E, as well as you were shredding enemy's MR by a lot. It was annoying, and kinda little OP. Now, it is skillshot, and to be serious, I like it. It's made to reward you for being precise, by dealing more dmg and applying slow if your enemy stands in the centre of the affected area. But there's one, major, crucial drawback to it: it's missile speed. The farther you want to cast it, the longer it takes to for it to land. So, when my enemy in very near to me, this skillshot is not very hard to land. But tell me, why it is harder to hit with Soraka's Q on max range then with Karthus's Q, which not only deals more damage, but also has 1 sec cd! It's horrible, and since Soraka is squishy, you have to stay far away from any threat, but by doing so, you will probably never hit enemy with your Q.

Now, her E. Old one was giving your ally mana or silencing single opponent. Very strong skill with one of its kind unique mechanic - mana healing. After rework, it was turned into silence zone which snares enemies similarly to Swain's W. It's great zoning skill and makes great synergy with Q, which slows (or it would make synergy if her Q wasn't so slow). The only skill in Soraka's new kit which has more pros than cons. Still, kinda sad they took away that mana sharing.

There's nothing to say about her ult because it's basically the same.

And lastly, the best (or at this case, the worst) for the end. Soraka's new heal. Before I get to it, I'll talk a bit about her old heal and why it was perfect in my opinion:

1. It had quite long cd, which meant you had to think about when to use it. It added strategy to Soraka's gameplay: should I use my heal now, or maybe save it, because there might be gank when it's on cd.
2. You could use it on yourself, which meant Soraka could be good solo laner in some team compositions. So what they made to her W after rework? Now, it has passive and active. The passive is: if you hit an enemy champion with Q, you'll get healed. Now you may think - wow, fantastic, that is awesome. I get healed for harassing my enemy. But let's not forget about something: your Q is super - slow skillshot and it's super hard to hit constantly moving objects with it. Ouch, that kinda sucks. So, I won't benefit from it too often, unless I'm some kind of skillshot god. And then there's active effect. I hate it, I just hate it so much. This is what kills Soraka for me. You heal your ally at the expense of 10% of your health, of course you can't heal yourself, (that's why you have that passive). Wait, what? Killing myself to heal my adc? And where I am going to get that HP back? I'll faster run out of mana before I hit enemy champ with my Q! Also, remember how I was talking about strategic decision when you should use your heal? It's gone. Your heal has like 2 sec cd, so you can spam it when you need to, while killing yourself, so you're adc can be alive. It's stupid, just so stupid! Not only it makes her nearly brainless champion, but this really low cd makes it toxic, because of how fast she heals. You caught adc with Morgana's Q? Well, Soraka's going to start spamming her heal so her adc gets out with more than half of his health bar. She negates any harassment dealt to an adc, which means the only way to play against her is:
3. Play burst adc so you can kill enemy adc faster than Soraka heals him.
4. Try to kill Soraka. I hate it, and I'm not the only one who do so.

Before rework, Soraka was support that healed her allies while harrassing enemies, as well as she was capable of solo laning. Right now, she's self killing, heal machine gun champ which theoretically can harass enemies, but practically you won't land that Q. At least you can still AOE silence, but that's the only pro I can find in that forest of her cons.

TL:DRSoraka's Q is neat idea, but skillshot's to slow. Her W is stupid, toxic, has no strategy in it, as well as slowly kills you. Those things make her rework failure.

So, what are my suggestions for making her better as support, as well as being capable of solo laning?

1. Increase missile speed of her Q. As I said, it's mechanics reward for being precise, but with such slow missile speed, it's more the matter of luck than skill. It's hard to already hit enemy normally, and it's nearly impossible to strike them for increased damage. Increasing it's missile speed will make it more reliable, and more capable for solo laning.
2. Make her heal similar to what it was before: long cd, can be used on anybody ( herself too), doesn't take her health away. Take away that Q passive of course. Also, to make her not to strong on solo lane, make it heal her for half an amount of what it would heal to others. This will bring back that strategic element of old Soraka I told you before, make her normal healer instead of machine gun - heal kamikaze, and give her a chance to be played solo lane.

What are your opinions about my suggestions? If you have your own ideas on how to improve her (besides bringing old kit back), feel free to post it down below.