Soraka needs.... something.

(There is a TL;DR version below for those not wanting to read my narrative) As a Soraka main, I can honestly say that Soraka is probably one of the weakest healers right now. Her boon used to be how strong her heals were EARLY while they didn't necessarily scale super high into late game. Other healers (like Sona and now Rakan) Have eh healing early but have really good scaling with it and also can burst heal themselves, unlike Soraka outside her long CD ult. Soraka's GIMMICK is supposed to be strong heals, but when other champions have heals that meet or exceed hers... as an addition to their kit and not the focus? SOMETHING needs to change.

When they first added the health cost on to Soraka's W, I HATED it. After getting into it I find it... ok. It forced her to be less of a heal bot and actually land those Q's to stay relevant. The issue is that it has a hp AND mp cost. That health cost doesn't get returned anywhere else in her kit either. First and foremost, I feel the mp cost should be completely removed from her W, even if it came with a cost increase to her Q and/or E. Secondly, I feel like that health cost should have a return. Originally, my thought was nerf the base heal make the 10% hp cost directly transfer to the heal. You know, [base numbers] + [Ap scaling] + [10% of Soraka's HP] = heal. Then the more I was thinking about it, the more that just didn't feel right. So the only other logical place to add that health scaling in would be on the regen effect of her Q. Make so each tick of Rejuvenation has an additional 0.75% of Soraka's max hp as healing per tick. This would be an overall loss of hp from a single Q-W relationship, but the loss wouldn't be as detrimental, especially when in team fights.

TL;DR VERSION

1. Soraka's gimmick is supposed to be 'healer' yet she fails to meet that standard any more than any other support that happens to have a heal.
2. Her W either needs to have the mana cost removed and ONLY cost hp or have the HP cost benefit the strength of the heal.
3. If the health cost of her W doesn't benefit THAT heal, then the rejuvenation effect of her Q should have very minor health scaling (0.75% max per tick)

I am in no way saying that Soraka is weak, just that recent changes have made her identity weak and an unappealing choice compared to the myriad of other healers. I feel she needs a very minor push to justify forcing a health cost onto her W.