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Please Nerf Soraka-From Soraka Main

Cawen·5/24/2016, 5:55:41 AM·2 votes·765 views

I'm a Soraka main (yes I find her fun), but she is literally banned in almost every ranked game of mine (plat 4). After a quick level 7 and 140k mastery with a high win ratio, I believe I am qualified to propose a solid nerf.

First, Soraka became broken with the introduction of the healing mastery that grants increased heals and mr/armor. As a result, Riot adjusted and nerfed Soraka by reducing the heal amount of W---tweaked/nerfed her Q mechanics----R no longer removes grievous wounds. All of these were good changes (grievous wound ult was questionable).

Do I personally think Soraka is OP? -No When people complain that Soraka is OP in lane, its because you're trying to trade. Soraka wins trades almost every time. If you are going to lane against Soraka, you have to all in her, otherwise-just farm. Second, Riot changed grievous wounds again so that is now affects all healing rather than only self healing. That means Soraka is highly weakened by a little 800g item..item 3123. People don't understand how much utility this item provides for the little cost. A weaker AP version of this item's passive is 2900g. And yes, I do notice a huge difference with grievous wounds.

The major thing that sets Soraka over the edge is cooldown reduction. Her W at max level only has a 1.3 second cooldown with 45% cdr. It should honestly be 2.5 seconds. Late game, Soraka is very strong with her high cdr and with a little bit of AP. That is the only major problem I see with Soraka...

I just want to play my main in ranked because she's banned 24/7. As a result I'm giving away what might be considered broken if the healing mastery is going to stay in the game(wish it wasn't even introduced).

1 Comments

xl Kirito lx5/24/2016, 6:16:59 AM2 votes

I honestly haven't seen Soraka bans often around Plat2. Zed/Ekko/Kindred/Voli/ect. There are higher priority bans. --

As for the champion, she has a couple of problems. I don't see her as a problem typically, but when she is strong, this is the problem -

  • In lane, if the opponent doesn't pick a hard engage bot lane, Soraka can stand well behind the ADC and heal spam without any interaction. This is especially true with strong laners like Caitlyn.

  • Mid-late game, she's as threatening as a mid laner or ADC. You have to kill her, otherwise she keeps healing people. Then no one dies. Run a double support comp behind double tanks, and it's incredibly strong comp.

This is at least what I've noticed. They're problems with the healer style class in general. Realistically, Soraka will never be healthy. I don't think there's been an iteration where she was healthy. At least she doesn't have the point+click silence anymore haha.