My little rant about Soraka difficulty

CasterGilgamesh··4 votes·1,315 views

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it gives me a warm feeling inside to know i have enough skill to just out play them all and never get touched besides maybe a few deaths because they blow their targeted ults hell i dont even build much health some im always dying with the 10% health cost on my healing spell while having a border line worthless Q with a pitiful slow and almost no damage.My build as Soraka item 3027 item 3504 item 3116 item 3089 item 3158 item 2301.I always wounder why people called my raka "no skill" just because they lose to her. i mean ill admit that her kit is simple but when im constantly the target of every champion i need to be able to dodge every single skill shot or i get one shot in most cases late game. then i have to set up kills with a root that needs to be planned ahead two seconds in advance or they will just walk out of the silence.I have no other way to keep my adc alive besides just healing while almost ever other support has at least two ways to keep the adc alive.My ult hardly maters early game because of how weak it is to make up for its global range. i have to be constantly looking at the map late game to see who needs my ult and i have to time my ult so that the enemy waste most of their burst which is risky since i dont know if my ally can survive the initial burst.It just shocks me how people think so little of what i do as a Soraka Main end of rant

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Defended1 votes

Because Soraka has been nerfed multiple multiple multiple times and still is one of the ''bann that'' champ

You should not lose bot lane ever with a soraka, unless they have a blitz or something. Her Q hitbox is too big to actually dodge everytime so all the damage you do to their adc or soraka boom its healed back up.

IMO Soraka is by far the easiest support next to blitz, Is actually overpowered, requires little to no game knowledge.

''My ult hardly maters early game'' First off, You must be new to league if you think sorakas ult ''hardly matters''

CasterGilgamesh2 votes

hardly matters as in it heals for little unless the my ally is below 40% health plus they dont have grievous wounds on them which is highly likely since ignite is probably up by the time my ult is. my passive is just a way to get to my allies and only works when they are low health which is below 40% soraka offering almost no CC besides a weak slow which is unnoticeable at most stages in a game. ill say that the silence is nice but since my lane is a lane with mostly pure auto attackers its only really good at late game in team fights where i have to hope that either my team has enough CC to keep the enemy in the field or hope that the enemy is stupid enough to stay still since it takes 2 whole seconds to get the root off. i cant hit minions or monsters with my silence field making it very hard to farm if i tried to go to a solo lane my Q hit box is big but the heal is hardly something to say "OMG i win" about since its a heal over time that doesn't stack for hitting more targets and the damage i do heal up will get poked away from me anyway since every adc has an ability to chunk off my health early game since i have to get close to land my Q im a big target to adc just because someone picks soraka doesnt mean they insta win. it takes more then that to win a game and to say other wise makes me question your skill. dont lump my raka with Blitzcrank because blitz has no weak point out side of Cool-downs he gives up nothing to have a pull that can change the out come of a game with a basic ability while my soraka gives up Having reliable CC damage and she pays 10% of her max health to heal so now being a tank is out of the question since the more hp i build the more i hurt myself.

The Lone Bard1 votes

Playing against champions like Vladimir Nasus Heimerdinger SorakaAnnie can be frustrating if the match up is in their favor, which in return you will make someone complain about a their simplistic kits instead of focusing on how to outplay them or communicate with their team so they can have better chances at winning the game.

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

im not going to say that my main is special but in all fairness Soraka doesn't deal damage and damages herself to heal with a basic ability.I personally feel like that should give her some leeway but thats just me.....so true though no one ever wants to play around a champions weakness they just want to complain.

specter4241 votes

You are cancer

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

not really thats Fizz

The Lone Bard1 votes

Thats what they call my toplane item 3285 item 3089 Rengar

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

i dont find it that bad but its so gimmicky i feel almost bad losing to it since he only has one ap ratio and the rest are just item 3115 and maybe item 3100

LadyRenly1 votes

people just want to lcs bigplay you repeatedly with lucian or zed, soraka gets in the way of that too much, so she must be op no skill plsnerf

Silly Neeko1 votes

-sigh- to start, i want to inform you of something. It may break your heart to know that Soraka is, in fact, a starter support. Its been forever since ive seen the price of Soraka, but i believe it was 450? Making her quite literally a newbie's first support most of the time. She is easy to play, but her kit can be heavily exploited by those that know what they are doing (experienced players in otherwords, just to separate from when I was talking about newbies). Her kit is very simplistic because she is cheap and is meant to teach newbies about risk vs reward.

Her Q has been buffed so she runs away from people she has Qed faster, while also slowing them AND healing you. Your build is missing a few things that I normally see Soraka's get..... Visage, Warmogs, Thornmail/omen/frozen heart, Boots, Ardent Censor, and then an AP item of your choice. You do not have to get those items on her in that order or at all, but those would solve your main issue of being unable to survive if you get targetted. You will also be healing like crazy still, have full CDR, etc.

Experienced Soraka players can land their Q, and know that they are playing a highly counter engage champion. Enemy jungler comes to gank? Silence! Their cc and damage is cut down right then and there, if they are silly enough to stay in it for 2 seconds, thats their own fault..... or your jungler or mid came to gank and trapped them there. Any champion that relies on their spells is instantly countered by Soraka if they try to engage, unless they can use the spells without getting close.

Your global heal for your whole team is not meant to bring everyone back to full hp. Full ap Soraka heal does not even do that. It is meant to give that little bit of a nudge to help out. Like Shen's ulti, it only shields. Often times not for very much at all. Shen shields still save lives.

As for solo lane Soraka, you are going to be Qing pretty much the entire laneing phase and then going into support mode late game. Your W will help when an ally ganks, your silence will keep them from just hopping away, your silence is also a heavy counter engage for if you are vs a Leblanc. If she dives you under turret you make her unable to tele back out right away. She takes at least 2 turret shots and damage.

Anyways, its like playing pokemon. You get a Starter champion first, then you catch more that do more. Is the starter bad? No. But it takes work to get good with them, unlike catching a higher champion who you normally has a bit more interesting things to do.

CasterGilgamesh1 votes

i dont like building tank on Soraka because that is cancerous plus its a meh since ill still just be hurting myself more and thats the reason she keeps getting nerfed anyways since you cant just blow her up

Silly Neeko1 votes

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i dont like building tank on Soraka because that is cancerous plus its a meh since ill still just be hurting myself more and thats the reason she keeps getting nerfed anyways since you cant just blow her up

And thus the reason why its done..... it helps curb some of the issues you mentioned. Soraka is just way too passive for my tastes in general, but she is a support for newbies to learn with with instant recognition of risk vs reward

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