
These champions counter all other supports besides tanks in the current meta and are hard to kill. Other supports can't do anything in lane if you have your method of engage up, period. One hook and they're dead. You are also very hard to gank compared to most lanes, which will likely make the enemy jungler ignore your lane.
So you can stare at each other for the laning phase. It isn't fun, but it gets you through laning phase. Your jungler will be more likely to gank for you as well because again, against non-tanks, engage supports can get some easy kills.
You could also play a mage support, BUT, only if the enemy doesn't pick an engage support. If your ADC is trash and the enemy is an engage support, then you're both going to be crying under tower. You'll be zoned out so fast if the ADC is playing poorly.
EDIT: I just looked at your itemization for Soraka, and it's completely wrong. You can carry a bad ADC as Soraka, but it's a little harder than with the above champions. You have less room for error. However, your build on Soraka is hurting you rather than helping you. I've gotten to Gold playing only Soraka support solo.
There's no reason to ever buy Ludens Echo outside ARAM. Twin Shadow and Banshee's Veil should not ever be consistent buys on Soraka either, especially not first buys.
There's no reason for you to depart from the Ardent Censor + Redemption meta in the games I'm seeing. Your Soraka build should be pretty standard. The only thing you have liberty buying early game is the type of boots you want.
Building straight AP on Soraka is not going to do anything but put you further behind because you don't have burst damage. You already have the tools early game to be a lane bully (albeit less so now that she was nerfed due to top lane), so at least buy Ardent and Redemption first before you go getting creative.
Soraka is a lane bully that transitions into a dedicated healer, so you need healing items.
Finally you should always be buying this
as soon as you finish your ward quest, and I always buy at least 4 of these
per game, typically more because I'll be the only one on the team with slot space for it.