Soraka Nerf To Strong

baatt13·Mar 20, 2016·2 votes·1,675 views

I love Soraka because she is strong and great at healing and I want to give my opinion about her nerf but I don't want to be salty about it. Ever since her huge nerf her q gives like no health and with a good amount of ap I only got 10 extra health, I was also unhappy about how the center doesn't give bigger damage despite it was very difficult to hit it with its speed the q has and can be easily avoided with a simple movement. Her w has a better cooldown ill give it that but could use a better amount of health given. During all of my games I was unable to snatch anyone with my e and seemed not to silence anyone. I would love to work with Riot to make Soraka better but not to op and not to weak. But please Riot work with the community of gamers to balance Soraka just right.

6 Comments

resumedMar 20, 20164 votes

soraka buff tbh

if you max her q first the hp you get is increased by a metric fuckton

and if you give rejuvination to a relatively squishy ally with max rank q it will heal like half of their hp

and its ridiculous once you get ardent censer, because each tick of rejuvenation resets the ardent censer's buff

NogrimMar 20, 20162 votes

this, i was worried this would be a nerf, but with some slight adjustments its actually a huge buff.

i mastery 5'd the old soraka and now more than before she must annoy the crap out of people. as long as your lane partner realizes the regen is stronger than the heal itself and plays accodingly they are invincible. the slow on her Q is incredibly oppressive when the slow is used to harass the enemy adc.

after one mana item it is spamable, and after one good cdr item and the slow becomes almost permanent as well as her regen.

Fizz n Your AsheMar 20, 20162 votes

Or...they can just bring back very old soraka with the ultimate mana refills, but then she'll be banned maybe 50% of match games :L

NogrimMar 20, 20161 votes

her old E was actually a lot of fun, it should have been tweaked instead of removed but more importantly removing her single target silence is what really hurt her which was never really the problem with the ability.

i would trade the new E with the old one in a heart beat even if it worked like the new heal, taking a portion of my mana to feed it to an ally, the important part is the single target silence.

being able to silence an assasin who all ins on you or an ally under a tower was one of her strongest abilities as a healer imho

Lysdexic1Mar 20, 20161 votes

The problem was, before she was oppressively strong. Those things you just mentioned, were all of her intended weaknesses from right after she was reworked. They wanted her to have to make a choice between staying healthy and keeping her team healthy. She also wasn't meant to have a tremendous amount of damage without building AP. Her healing power is so strong that having a lot of damage as well would make her broken. Riot just put more emphasis on what her strengths and weaknesses should have been.

NogrimMar 20, 20161 votes

the problem is this change did imho none of that.

the new Q is much much stronger being able to spam it due to low CD and low mana cost means i almost always have my opponents slowed, and the regen active. imho she is much much harder to kill now, her healing to her ally has been incredibly nerfed however (the heal wont save people now, and is best used just to share the regen buff)

the removal of the ability to heal lane minions also means she is almost unable to even hold a lane on her own, let alone push one.

so far ive found her update buffed the things people hated about her, and nerfed the thing she was supposed to be able to do. the problem is they will respond with nerfs to this new skill set instead of rolling things back, which is just going to make her unplayable and a bad choice as a healer.

i have already moved away from her as my support main and gone to nami, who heals better and does not have to sacrifice her health as well as mana to do so, meanwhile having much better CC and bringing a lot more to teamfights.