Astral Infusion should not cost health (Soraka)

Pristinelyssia·4/1/2016, 5:54:35 PM·5 votes·3,805 views

Astral Infusion should not cost health (unless Soraka was a valid target for it/able to cast it on herself) that Starcall/Starfall does not effectively make up for...

the point is that Soraka is more dependent on Item Builds, Runes, Masteries, Summoner Spells (AND her own ultimate ability) than the majority of available champions at large; making her Tier far lower than her measured difficulty projects.

the simple solution would be to make Soraka a valid target for her own Astral Infusion.

the ideal solution would be to remove the health cost.

if healing costs the healer their own health, then they're not quite a healer.

183 Comments

Wolfess4/15/2016, 8:57:56 AM2 votes

it costs health because the problem with the old soraka is, quite literally, just maxing CDR and mana regen with high AP to spam heals for days with no counterplay and no interaction whatsoever.

she literally was an hp and mana battery back before rework, especially for champs like ezreal who spammed abilities to poke from a distance and she would just regen his mana and hp whenever he needed it. glad they took her mana refill away and made her heal cost her hp so she has to make actual decisions and makes tradeoff heals. Sure technically she CAN heal herself with Q, but she has to come at you for it.

ModAttysu The Poro4/1/2016, 5:55:53 PM1 votes

Eh, I still win games by going Tank Soraka. I don't care who says what it works. >_>

Pristinelyssia4/1/2016, 7:57:18 PM1 votes

Riot should hire me as an off site problem solver. im uncannily intelligent in that way~ i can look at something for a very short time and tell you what the problem is.

and if i look at league of legends, the first problem i see (in terms of balance) is the silence status.

there are some other problems too... (in terms of balance) on the topic of movement speed. each champ has generally the same natural movement speed, when in perspective i'm sure some champs would physically run and walk faster than others (inherit ability load outs aside).

each champion would shine more if their legitimate movement speed was considered before abilities were added.

like i imagine that Champs like Ashe and Katarina and Riven and Quinn are all generally faster on foot than champs like Leona or Lux or Karma or Soraka..

it would do more to balance them if they all move a speed befitting the theme of the character.

shyt like that i can just see.

Pristinelyssia4/18/2016, 1:14:56 PM1 votes

if there were a game mode where there could be no items, runes, masteries or other extras (executed on any normal map), you guys would better see my point.

Pristinelyssia4/18/2016, 11:50:02 PM1 votes

there's nothing wrong with me citing this game as exhibit proof of the function of LoL; despite the fact that the most of ignorant of you would like to find any reason you can to dispute it (because of your personal need to pvp on an otherwise free game).

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if you don't agree then you don't love the health of the Riot company.

Some other facts i want to share:

1.) more female players buys skins than male players buy skins.

2.) some skins male players don't buy (even when they are "catfishing"), and females do buy and players can be profiled by sex just on this information alone.

3.) most males players would find another free game to play and don't truly love Riot if the company went out of business and the "grill gamers" would actually be hurt.

4.) more female players buys skins for the males players than the male players (even) buy champions for themselves (not to mention skins); - when skins is what Riot likes to put out more often than any other product they produce.

this post is not sexist it's statistically "factual".

players should reflect on how much they do and do not love Riot. your conversations are in the logs.