Just Found My New Favorite Tactic
Healing my minions right before the enemy adc attacks them making them miss cs.
Healing my minions right before the enemy adc attacks them making them miss cs.
You can't milk those minions.
I've done that before as Karma mid. Shield the minion as Kat tries to last-hit it. She kept saying "OMG STAHP" in all-chat. It was fun.
TFW you heal a minion so much you deal 95% true health damage in less than 1 minute.
#thatsop
You're learning well, kiddo.
10% HP and some mana for 1 cs that the enemy will probably still get
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Canons are. And you say that like there aren't 3 easy ways for her to get health back. That's as inane as saying "oh, but Karthus' q costs mana don't farm with that"
Karthus Q costs like no mana at all if you just last hit with it because of his E passive... If both are at max rank he actually gains mana, meanwhile Soraka heal costs 1/10 of her HP + mana lol. And early game, Soraka is gonna heal minions for ~150- 200, so you should be able to get the cannon minion anyway.
10% sounds like a lot, but it's not. And the mana is ignorable. And I'm not saying do it every time, but if you have full health and plenty of mana it's worth a shot. Unless you're stacking health on her. If you're not building silly, then you don't lose anything from it.
Stack health, get
, infinite heals.
Tiny heals since you didn't build ap, with essentially three times the cooldown since you're waiting for regen - 1.1 second cooldown, 3.3 seconds to regen 10% from warmogs. And that 200% base regen will only be giving you 22 regen/5, or 4 per second. Which, since you built health, is absolutely nothing. Soraka has the lowest base health regen in the game. IF you don't get hit. I mean, if you want to go from almost useless to completely useless from taking 1 damage, sure. The only effective ways to regain health is to land starcall (not that hard), ult, or B.
Doesnt mean it isnt fun. I've tried it several times, and giving your team nigh infinite heals, albeit small, is still big. besides, all it takes is rylais, deadmans, and warmogs, and ofc boots. Then you have 2 more slots for whatever else, ap or suppporty. still very good in comps that wont focus soraka.
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What about blocking the Cannon minion with 
Ha I've been playing soraka lately and have done this a few times. I had a trist on the other team say "Damnit soraka!" after doing it twice.
I did the same thing to a trist but with Taric.
I'm sorry, but I have things to shield...like this caster minion for instance. I'm not ashamed to say I actually did this.
using Blood Boil on a minion to push the wave in, too. Next-level shit.
Gems 
Yes, that is my "tactic" as well. And not a result of me being mechanically terrible at this game.
Look, ADC. You have lifesteal to heal back. Think about the poor minions.