Soraka: You accomplished pushing her out of top, but her support role's pretty much ruined. She actually needs buffs.
Sona: SONA TOP STILL WORKS, but you actually nerfed Sona support slightly, probs due to the hotfix (since it was said that the initial change without the hotfix was actually helpful).
I actually think that Sona will still have fringe top lane usage even after you change STE. As for Soraka...you guys overdid it horrendously.
sona needs a rework of her skills entirely, the aura mechanic is just ok at best, in term of support gameplay nami is sona 2.0 and sona shouldnt have been turn into a late game spammer of skills, focus on her ability to combo her music instead
Honestly, they just need to push ranged laners out of top and it eliminates the whole issue. They always create balance issues and just point blank aren't fun to play against and usually just picked to be annoying because you know people tilt off of it.
I said they should have just pushed Sona's power to her ally buffs and reduce her self-healing/shielding/damage (self-applied healing/shielding and Q-empowered reduced to, say 40/60/80/100% based on R rank)
Soraka's issues currently stem from Q's rejuvination being so low, so if she uses W, she can't regen to use it again from Q. So she needs to Q THEN W to compensate, but has to deal with Q's massive mana increases to do so, with no compensation to W's mana cost even though she is now required to cast both to use her heal effectively at all.
Reduce Soraka's W mana cost by at least the same amount as Q was increased, and while she would still be harder to use than before the changes, she wouldn't be outright shafted from support because she's constantly at 4% mana.
One does not simply buff soraka and think its actually a good idea.
Yeah, unfortunately Soraka isn't a champ that makes #LCSBigPlays... so im not holding any hope anything gets done about it. Heck they are probably high-fiving eachother on a job well done for pushing her out of top lane without any afterthought to how it actually affects her in support role at all.
Im honestly baffled at how this went live, they nerfed her Q by making it roughly half as effective and costing 20 mana more at all ranks, and then on top of it her mana growth PER LEVEL also went down by 20 !
So it's essentially like a triple whammy nerf, and the "compensation" she got is quite honestly laughably bad, even with the hotfix.
TL;DR she essentially got Kench-bench'd (gutted in her role for casual play because of pro play) in one patch.
The brief PBE description of the change said that casting W while under the effects of Rejuvenation had no health cost, but it actually scales with spell rank. Should've made it just remove the health cost. Hell, make Rejuvenation also remove W's mana cost. Why allow W to be cast while not under Rejuvenation in the first place? Even with the initial rework, Q was a vital part of forcing Soraka to interact with enemies instead of just standing back and healing; the subsequent mini-rework forced her to interact with enemies regularly instead of sporadically; this version puts even more emphasis on that QW combo. There's little reason to use W without first landing a Q, and there's little reason to use Q unless you're planning on following it with a W. The whole thing is basically Rakan's Q now, but you gotta press two buttons and you better heal an ally.
Giving Rakan his Q while Soraka still existed might've been a mistake.
