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I can heal, Cant heal Dumb

Triscuts·9/8/2016, 6:48:38 PM·4 votes·1,052 views

This was a ridiculous situation, and I have had it more than once. Yes I am an Unranked NOOB and I know a lot of you will stop reading at this point but my Heals as Soraka do not fix stupid.

Unranked as I am I know starting my life in raked was going to be rough. 10 placement games and all. in my first Ranked game ever, decided I was going to test myself and see where the world places me, be it Bronze or not I wanted to have a base line to see where I could improve. My team loads to dynamic queue champion select and surprise surprise my Mid/Support came up Support. I was expecting this and wanted to use my most comfortable champ so I picked Soraka, Who doesn't love your local healer. I never feed, but the first ban was Yoric, the person Our top wanted to be. and they are talking about how we shouldn't flame each other, and if that happens again there wont be friends made this way... maybe I should have dodged. I would have preferred a Blitzcrank ban, which given maybe I should have asked for.

Sure enough the team I end up with is Zed Varus Fiora MasterYi Soraka against a Blitzcrank MissFortune Yasuo Shen Rengar. I knew we were in trouble bot lane, but I figured if we played smart we could get out of lanes, and I could be a global help. sure enough we leashed the Yi, so my adc knew I started my Q and then when we go in lane, at level one he gets chunked down on health, and continued to run towards me expecting a heal, once I hit level two I healed him back to health, then he runs infront of the minions and gets hooked by blitz and promply dies. This happens to him a few times, and I get the same treatment. Pelted by fortunes bullets, then blitz gets me. We both collectively die four times bot lane, zed goes to help us, dies, Yi comes to help Dies.... My ADC decides to abandon bot lane to help mid, and sticks there while we lose Both bottom towers and zed and Yi ask why we didn't stay there... I couldn't answer, I had followed my ADC to help mid, and he never left with me to go back bot. anyways, after I went to help and heal as much as I could where I could, Fiora and Yi wanted the Rift Herald Buff, I went in and threw one heal on fiora, and she started in not the best of health, once off timer I threw it on Yi, he then runs after the invade, and blames me for not healing him, While on cool down... I stayed quiet until, I was trying to avoid a skill shot under our second mid tower, I flashed and ended it right out a comic book, into a blitz Rocket Grap... when I look at the stats 1/7/1 zed, 0/6/3, and 2/5/0 varus, 2/3/2 yi. but I'm the problem because I couldn't run to heal all of them. I admit, I had a horrible game, but as I said in game, and I hope they reported me for saying it, But just because I am having a bad game doesn't mean you cant own up to your own mistakes... 5 hooks I counted varus set himself up for, and everything was my fault cause of lag or I was high.

Needless to say my first experience with Ranked was less than stellar. Perhaps Ill just go the cheese route of taking brank and velkoz there instead of being the good support I can be with Raka, but man, this was disheartening. Own up to your own mistakes. don't blame the bot lane for your late gank and say we were recalling when we waisted flash to try and save you. Don't blame your Morgana got one or two CS when they mis calculated their damage, unless you are perfect at CS, and finally for the love of god, stop saying in the mid lane is boosted in normal because you as bring in the midlane with you a master YI when I have no mana... and might I add again, not ranked... don't know why I bitched to you all, but yeah I could have played better, but so could have the team...

18 Comments

Malfini9/8/2016, 7:54:36 PM5 votes

Why does your team does not have a tanky champion? And seriously why ban Yorick?

If there is one thing I have learned as a support main, then that is NEVER BE A FULL SUPPORT. Go Burst AP Mage.

JayHog19929/8/2016, 7:05:46 PM2 votes

Once was Soraka supporting a TF adc in pre-30 on my NA smurf. He kept yelling that I wasn't healing when my heal takes FIVE SECONDS to recharge. And the enemy could kill him before that!

AwesomeChad9/8/2016, 7:48:47 PM2 votes

Sorry but ranked wasn't made new player friendly. Majority of the player base is in bronze and silver. In that elo, you get a mix of newer players trying to improve, veterans who think they're good and don't feel they are the problem, and also trolls.

Milodic Mellodi9/8/2016, 9:09:34 PM2 votes

I think I ended up having your same kind of game as my first Placement. Went Soraka because at the time my choice was between Morg or her and I think they had a MF on their team so I thought healing would be better than spell blocking (until they locked in Blitz). We had a terrible game, and try as I might I couldn't be a good support at all because both of them targeted me until they were fed and my teammates never ganked or even tried helping me out of any rut I got into. Kinda stopped playing Soraka after that.

JustJayson9/8/2016, 7:41:28 PM1 votes

Honestly soraka I find very annoying to play against because she lets her ADC pretty much win every trade. Blitz works well against soraka, you get hooked your dead. A Varus adc with soraka is not a good idea. Someone with more trade potential and mobility like a sivir, tristana, ezreal or lucain would let them go in for quick trades durring laning phase then you heal them back up. You can win most trades and bot lane match ups this way.

The issue is if top and middle lose lane and your team is behind, you become pretty useless as soraka's kit doesn't allow for much play making to get your team back in the game from behind. I prefer Karma for this reason. More utility and damage than soraka. If you get ahead and go full damage karma support (which I would recommend in bronze - silver), then you can carry the game from that position even if your ADC sucks.

Do not worry you have many games left to get placed