How do you think old Soraka would be in todays game ?

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I started playing soraka in late season 3 I think, when nobody played her. She was one of my first champs that I bought a skin for, celestine soraka baby. Even my friends said the fuck did I bought a soraka skin for, but I just enjoyed playing her, healing 'n shit. Spammed her a lot in my early days of league. I don't know when the solo lane soraka craze started, but I was really disappointed they decided to rework her then, didn't play her at all after that for about half a year. I've gotten used to the new one, but every time I lock her in, a little part of me thinks of the old goat lady. KirbyCake RIP, that guy played her mid lane when nobody did, to challenger I think, he hasn't touched her after that.

I actually think old soraka wouldn't be that annoying to deal with today, since her heal before had like a 20 sec cd, whereas today you can get as low as 1.1 sec. Her Q wouldn't be as frustrating since you could get hexdrinker/adaptive, etc... I'd love to play old soraka now, would be a nice counter to this burst, snowbally fuckin' game.

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BALDG1VEN BOOMER12 votes

R - Wish SALT IN THE WOUND No longer removes Grievous Wounds

Revert this, thanks.

They changed how GW worked, nerfed the shit out of her, then revert GW.

Nice Sejuani Riot.

lolipopevelynn3 votes

[{quoted}](name=Thę Weeknd XO,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=z8wbGRas,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2018-04-01T22:05:46.243+0000)

R - Wish SALT IN THE WOUND No longer removes Grievous Wounds

Revert this, thanks.

They changed how GW worked, nerfed the shit out of her, then revert GW.

Nice Sejuani Riot.

Um no

BALDG1VEN BOOMER1 votes

Um yes, maybe explain?

Grokmir4 votes

I think old soraka would probably be meme tier bad.

She would be way too slow and too unsafe for how fast pace the game is now. At least in the support role.

No clue about solo lane.

Feel Apathy2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Grokmir the bold,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=z8wbGRas,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2018-04-01T22:23:42.141+0000)

I think old soraka would probably be meme tier bad.

She would be way too slow and too unsafe for how fast pace the game is now. At least in the support role.

No clue about solo lane.

Pretty much this.

The game doesn't revolve around sustain anymore.

Everyone's damage is off the charts in comparison to before.

Even if you could give mana to your ADC and the Caitlyn / Sivir could spam Q to clear the wave it wouldn't be enough.

A few nerf reverts and she'd be in a great spot to be honest. [Range on Q, Cd on E, maybe a buff to base health regen?]

Steelflame3 votes

Don't forget her old heal gave 120 armor at max rank. She gave 2400 gold worth of armor to the person she healed. Sorta makes it hard to kill said person if you yourself are an AD champ.

Raiyza4 votes

MERRY CHRISTMAS HAVE SOME MANA.

LankPants3 votes

The only saving grace I could see for her would be that the armour buff on W would be insanely strong. Other than that I just don't think her kit would translate into LoL's current state very well, it was too passive early and just too slow.

Spooky Peaches1 votes

I want soraka to become relevant again so badly [sg-janna]

Salamencę1 votes

That point and click 2 second silence thooooooo

Terozu1 votes

The Super powered Sona Q that hit all targets in range...

Seriously that alone broke her in Urf, never mind the W or E.

Modl Ryden l1 votes

Lol Marksmen like KogMaw Varus and even Kayle would love her spamming Q for that no counterplay MR shred Starcall.

VoraciousX1 votes

Oh my god what fun it would be to spam Q for insane damage full AP to all targets around me again. Although....imagine if Soraka when she used Q sent like starcallers all around her in a meteor styled barrage...That'd be kinda fun...lol. But honestly this Soraka is better for the game. Also iirc you could heal yourself and give yourself mana. Imagine that with a tear of the goddess(because spamming Q lalala) new manaflow band, and maybe new presence of mind and oh my god you'd be pretty crazy.

It Hertz When IP1 votes

I think she'd suffer. Her healing would be better vs burst but weaker vs sustained poke; her Q would be borderline worthless outside of laning since teamfights/duels are over too quickly to get decent MR shred; and while her old E would be more frustrating for enemies, it means she'd lose her access to hard CC, meaning that (along with no longer having a slow) she'd be even MORE vulnerable to getting jumped.

Killer of Night91 votes

What about a partial revert? The old W/Passive (only the heal effect) should be bring back (that's the best part of the kit but with somethis tweak upping maybe the armor duration from 2 to 4s but lowering thethe stat)

  • toggle rejevenaut effect from Q (or mantain lowering the W heal but sound weird) + give to her Q a cd effect for enemy hit (5-7 % cd back for enemy hit) to her W/E using the actual Q). Giving to R toggle of graveous wound effect again
Mama Soraka1 votes

I feel like there has been a lot of threads about Soraka lately. Pls rito give goat mama some love

[sg-soraka]

Tiernos1 votes

As much as I don't like to admit it, but if they brought old soraka back even in this meta, she'd still break the game. Consider a build like, liandries, tank item, tank item, tank item, boots, frozen fist or rylais. Safe sorakas ran flash / ghost, flash for team fights to keep in range with q spam and to position in general, kill oriented sorakas ran flash or ghost / ignite and just played a kill lane.

You literally get to like 4k hp with ass tons of armor and mr, stand in between their back line and front line and zone their carries out of the fight, use your heal on cool down on either your adc to keep them alive from the enemy dive or on yourself to lol at the adc with +120 armor, the whole time procing frozen fist like every 1.5 seconds ala q and shortening the cast time on your w ala q which is dealing % hp dmg / tick with liandries, the heal would extend fights a lot and people wouldn't be able to deal with you. If they choose to move past you they will start taking star calls every 1.5 ish seconds.

You don't have to build damage because every subsequent q does more dmg as you shred their mr into the negatives (yes -mr meant that spells actually did more than their listed values to you) the only thing that kept soraka in line was her mana consumption and even that was just a so so restriction. Oops assassin got on your adc 3 s instant cast silence go. Even if people got grievous items, wish healed through grievous and a lot of times you could out last a morello's proc and get a clean w off a lot of times even if they managed to take you down, you as a tank were dealing more sustained dmg than your own bot lane combined and the fights were easy to clean up.

I understand why riot changed soraka, and I was a soraka main when kirbycake was popular and long before, I just don't like the direction they went. I feel that they didn't deliver for us though as they said they were going to preserve her mage build as well as her support build.

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