The Assassin Main and the Soraka

DiamondLeonis·9/20/2016, 8:19:31 PM·1 votes·523 views

I just had a game, linked below.

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We started off so badly with both top and mid feeding. I was playing Soraka and managed to get my Ashe ahead by using Equinox to stop Annie and Lucian from trading correctly while healing Ashe. So we got our first double kill. Then the enemy mid, a Katarina comes down and tries to gank as she is fed.

So I equinox her ult, exhaust her (like I would any assassin) and she dies before she can get her damage combo off. She then absolutely rages at me, telling me to "Stop that s**t, Soraka", to which I respond "It's my job". She spends the whole game flaming me and then going AFK at the end when we manage to pull the mother of all comebacks and win the game as I am able to heal Hecarim constantly and let him engage onto the enemy team.

Katarina is still yelling abuse at me.

It got me thinking. Is this the reason that Assassin mains hate her so much, because she can interfere with their combos and their usually high damage? It makes me laugh when people say that Soraka needs a nerf because she is about the only assassin counter left in the game and she usually gets focused hard in teamfights regardless because of the mobility of assassins in the first place?

So why are assassins so toxic about her. I have seen this several games now. Soraka is a perfectly reasonable counter to a creeping damage meta.

2 Comments

Astôlfo9/20/2016, 8:27:03 PM1 votes

Her outhealing an assassin's burst between W and R and nullifying most of their chance to do it with an instant-silence E is mildly annoying. Also just forcing them to back by putting a E on top of them and Q a little behind/to side of them because if they get caught, then the ADC would just kill them.

CerealBoxOfDoom9/20/2016, 8:30:39 PM1 votes

soraka does need some changes,

it doesn't matter what she counters. she is the next step in a dangerous cycle

first damage gets out of control so theres healing

then healing gets out of control so theres antiheal

then heal gets even stronger but then it reaches the point where its healers or gtfo

once soraka gets nerfed other things can go with whatever is nerfed.