Soraka is being moved from a high risk healer to a lane bully year by year.

Siegfriedx1·10/20/2018, 2:21:03 PM·3 votes·1,146 views

Let’s face it. Riot don’t like her healings.

That’s why she was the single support with most nerfs and small reworks in the history of lol.

Could we have a last small rework to stop this bully train madness and allow her to be a life saver again?

Can’t we have a soraka that everybody enjoy playing with and against after lane phase?

If her healing mechanic was connected to a skill check, no one would have a problem with her. it could be anything.

Make people playing against her to feel skill and they will not be so frustrated by her and you are going to be able to make her less obnoxious on lane phase.

Let’s not pretend starcall don’t become an useless skill mid late game as well.

4 Comments

Lord Nagash10/20/2018, 3:26:23 PM1 votes

in my opinion the problem is that people feel cheated when playing aganist her. hell ye i am winning this 1v4! Soraka : Nope ( clicks R heals all of her team for lulz.) and that in itself is infuriating. then the laning phase heals the fuck out of her adc and pokes well too. For example i like how H.o. the thunder ( not mentioning competion directly just to be safe) has a dragon lady who heals if you stand in a green zone or another red lady who heals you but only if you deal damge, imo these are way more maybe interactive is not the right word but these are not just " oh well he clicked 600 hp onto that guy. nice.

ShadWooo10/20/2018, 5:46:10 PM1 votes

I don't understand what you want. And tbh Soraka was always lane bully in past, right now she is least lane bully ever (mostly due to the overally high dmg, ignite buffs and meta shift). And the hit Q to enhance healing is already a thing. So your post makes no sense to me...

But yeah the Riot's changes on Soraka and there has been many were really weird...

Anyway you can't bully anything in this season because:

  • you would have to max Q or E to make it at least bit efficient, but if you do it, 8secong cd on W prevents you to win extended 2vs2
  • you can't really poke with E unless enemy is stupid or weak enough to not punish this
  • you must get close to enemy and use autoattacks, which allows enemy to engage onto you or trade back, and even between enchanters she just loses that poke trade to everyone including janna
  • doran shield and bunch of other anti-poke runes from resolve tree that is commonly used by both marksmen and supports

Soraka is in really bad spot right now mainly due to the overally too high damage (you can't heal oneshots (and by oneshot I mean kill with in 0.x second no matter how many abilities were involved)) buffed ignite (no point wasting ult that was nerfed its previous ability to remove GW for a target with 10%hp with ignite on him) that is now commonly used in toplane and the general state of meta (high ammount of snowballing in sololanes, every second game decided in first 15 minutes, huge impact of junglers).

S5 Soraka was defnitely obnoxious, the rework was great in fact despite Soraka mains claiming opossite she was very powerful at that time which was discovered in s7 by pros, suddently "ardent meta" (and I won't stop claiming it was overrated and overreacted) happened and Soraka received minirework (which wasn't exactly bad) as previously Q slowed only in small sweetspot and while the instant heal from Q hit was changed into delayed hp regen the benefit of Q slowing everytime was worth it. Then came unjustified R nerf, and W nerfs because Soraka players were suddenly maxing Q (which I was doing since s6...) to be a lane bully and that wasn't allowed for Soraka.

Imo, Soraka needs two things:

  • remove R nerf
  • rework E or fix the issue with silence not applying instantly, every second game I lose critical teamfight or shutdown because E doesn't work and enemy uses flashe or spells after they came from tp/zhonya/other easy-to-counter ability like lissandra E while standing in perfectly timed Equinox.

That is all needed to make Soraka not feel ultra terrible again and be balanced no matter what meta shifts happens.