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SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF THE STARCHILD: Mana Infusion may be back(ish)!

Deep Terror Nami··6 votes·447 views
1/29 PBE Update

Starcall (Q)

  • Mana cost lowered to 60 at all ranks from 70/75/80/85/90

> "Calls down a star from Soraka to a target location. Enemies standing in the explosion radius take 70/110/150/190/230 (+0.35 AP) magic damage and are slowed by 30% for 2 seconds. > If Starcall damages a champion Soraka gains Alignment, restoring up to 30/45/60/75/90 (.1 AP ) health and 20/30/40/50/60 (+.1 AP) mana over 5 seconds."

[New Mechanic] "If Starcall damages a champion Soraka gains Alignment, restoring up to 30/45/60/75/90 (.1 AP ) health and 20/30/40/50/60 (+.1 AP) mana over 5 seconds."

Astral Infusion (W)

> "Restores 70/100/130/160/190 (+0.6 AP) health to another champion ally. > If cast while affected by Alignment Soraka will transfer the effect to her target with a refreshed duration. > Cannot be cast if Soraka is below 5% Health."

Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly.

Discuss!

18 Comments

ModAttysu The Poro2 votes

PLS GIVE MY BBY MANA INFUSION BACK! I STILL E THINKING I'M GONNA GIVE MANA BUT I END UP TRYING TO SILENCE MY ADC ;-;

ZT Xperimentor2 votes

Can we get the item back that gave mana to allies to? Seems like manaless champs are all that's played these days (sarcasm implied).

Ulquiorra9952 votes

While it's good to see it back, these changes will make Soraka beyond pathetic. That mana restore sucks terribly until you max out Q or build a decent amount of AP (which you won't do because AP Raka is dead and buried when this goes through), and at that point few champions will care about 60 mana over 5 seconds.

And even looking at the rest, I can safely say that she's ruined. Take a champion who burns through her own HP at the rate of 10% every 2-3 seconds and remove her only way to recover her own HP? I don't need to be in challenger to see that these changes will send her straight to pre-rework Eve tier.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

? They didn't remove her only way to recover HP. It's baseline built into Q. She recovers health with that, not just mana.

Ulquiorra9952 votes

Current version at rank 1 is way better than PBE version at rank 5. It is as good as removed.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly.

CrazedPorcupine1 votes

Honestly, with how many people are enjoying the absolute destruction of Soraka, I can tell you that Soraka won't get compensation buffs if no further changes are made to her on the PBE and the update gets pushed to live. Soraka can't ever be good without being considered absolute cancer.

Ulquiorra9951 votes

I can count on fingers of one hand the number of times Riot pulled back changes like this and still have some to spare. So, unless Soraka's name suddenly changes to Lee Sin, the rework is most certainly here to stay.

And seriously. Her self-heal is now absolutely useless. Some buffs in base values don't accommodate for losing missing %HP scaling, between 30-70% AP (which is one of the hardest nerfs Riot has ever pulled off), making it a Hot instead of instant, and worst of all - losing your only source of self sustain when using your healing ability which also burns your HP really fast by itself.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

I wasn't suggesting that the rework would be thrown out, but that the numbers are highly susceptible to change.

Ulquiorra9951 votes

Unfortunately, I heavily doubt that for two reasons.

First being that Riot considers Soraka toxic, so she's more likely to be left in a gutter than actually fixed.

Second and more important, because of the way her self-heal is tied to her ally heal. They can't make her self heal good or even decent, because it will in turn make her ally heal straight out insane.

Void Nargacuga1 votes

Already got some input from some who has PBE. Here is a direct link to their thoughts on it.

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

thx. Wish I had PBE.

Void Nargacuga1 votes

Same... Though I barely have time for even the Live version at times due my work. XD

Don't want to imagine trying to help figuring out the balance changes of the PBE... Might end up giving me more stress... [slayer-jinx-unamused]

Maple Crusader1 votes

I've always thought that Starcall should give back some mana to Soraka if she hits enemy champs. With a conditional form of Infusion being combined with Astral Blessing, this could be very interesting.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

I was hoping it would go into the Infusion replacement, Equinox. Like, regen mana to allies standing in it. This makes it more interesting though because you have to decide whether to keep it or pass it on.

Steelflame1 votes

Not really. Just heal the person needing mana right as the buff runs out on you, it resets the duration.

Deep Terror Nami1 votes

Right you are. Was preoccupied while posting and missed that detail.

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

Brother ive been singing the gospel of soraka for a long time i decided to give her a break though since the noobs i got stuck with dont deserve her plus Braum keeps giving me that face that i can't say no to and shen just got an update so shen support here i come!

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