Soraka, the Mobile Healing Ward

Hi guys. I have played Soraka today, a champion that I always liked to play with. It was really a long time ago I played her, and her was still useful at mid or top role. But playing her today was very frustrating...

From my point of view, her abilities have good effects, and the ideas regarding them are pretty interesting for me. But she can, no longer, save the ADC during a fight with the enemy duo bot lane. Her damage with Q is not considerable, since you're not going to survive enough to apply even half of possible Q stacks on your targets. Her ultimate can still heal a great amount on HP when you add all the healing done to the team, but it no longer offers a tool for saving an ally that is being heavily focused, it does not even heal enough to give your ally a chance to escape. Probably, the only ability that is performing good is her passive and E, since her W does not even heal decently for a big load of mana.

Sincerely, Riot wants to keep her a good support without giving her the chance to play in other roles. That's why they nerfed her numbers. But with these nerfs, she is just not playable as a support. Other supports, like Karma, Nami and Morgana, offer more utility to the team and can even protect the ADC better than Soraka. Her style was to keep the ADC in shape for a fight, but these others are doing it better, even Morgana with only her Black Shield for protection.

In my opinion, it would be great to increase her abilities base values. At least, it would give her more power to heal, protect or simply give the team more sustain. It isn't really needed to give her decent AP ratios if Riot wants to keep her a support, but letting her do the only job she has decently is the least they could do. As she is now, it's reasonable why Soraka is not played, or even considered as a pick. At least, I've never seen her since the nerfs on her.

Well, this is just my opinion, and the idea of this post is mostly discuss her power, and if she is still powerful enough.