Soraka Idea for her E

CJ10002000·2/20/2018, 2:54:05 AM·2 votes·441 views

Right now Soraka is a heal bot that literally does one thing all game and i dont really want to change that but instead put more power into her E so here i go.

RIght now all you do is put it on the floor and silence ppl but what if instead it was a buff for your adc.

Instead of getting a shield you get silence buff that allows you to auto attack a champion and silence them for 1/1.25/1.5/1.75/2 seconds put this on say a 20 sec cooldown flat so max rank it has a 11 sec cooldown and the buff lasts 3 seconds on your adc. meaning 8 seconds of counterplay. Also the silence is like udyr stun that it has a cooldown of lets do 10 seconds.

Just as an example lets say a Renekton uses E to get infront of your adc and has W (his stun) ready. you can put the E on your adc and they can auto to cancel the stun and also give themselves some self peel. This would revolutionize Soraka as a true peel mage like Lulu and Janna with each one having their unique playstyle.

Also this would make soraka good vs spell abundant laners like Lucian or MissFortune but would be weak vs say Ashe or Vayne and the same applies to supports such as Braum and Bard but would be weak vs say Thresh or Blitzcrank still.

3 Comments

notice me Sin pi2/20/2018, 4:11:08 AM1 votes

Given soraka's slow AA projectile, I think that would provide an interesting gameplay despite auto attacks being targetted. One of Soraka's key strength in late game rn is her AoE silence, and losing that might make her trash tier during teamfights. Maybe a cone-shaped AoE (think of bard's meep-empowered auto) silence on auto attack could give it an oomph but i am not sure if it would be fun to play against. Nevertheless I think your idea is in the right direction for replacing her insta-cast AoE silence if her VGU day comes.

Dorans Pants2/20/2018, 5:13:32 AM1 votes

...Soraka as a true peel mage like Lulu and Janna...

problem is those two are probably the most braindead and hated supports you can find on the rift. i play lulu a lot and i have to say you just feel dirty playing her. sure you will make some good ults throughout the game but most of the time u just E + W your carry and say "go get them!". you are the ultimate pokémon trainer just sitting back and do fuck all. so imo they are not really the gold standard we should strive for. in fact i find soraka´s current E way more rewarding than anything in lulu´s kit since it´s actually possible to miss it. u can also predict the enemy´s movements and set it up in advance, u can cut of paths with it, its usefulness is dependent on the situation and team comb. all those things convey so much more skill expression than "put a buff on your carry and fuck off".

i would also expect these changes to produce very binary results. it´s either busted as fuck and will make her super oppressive to the point where they will nerf anything else or it won´t be very noticeable and we just traded an unreliable but powerful aoe silence + root for a reliable single target silence. either way, it wouldn´t make her more interesting to play in any shape or form, probably the opposite.

just give her her old Q back (the one with the center), raise the tick rate of her E, so that people can´t zhonya´s and flash out of it. and i don´t even have a problem with changing her E, u could give the field a ms boost, so u can use it more offensively or to get people to u, change the range, effect or delay idc but pls for the love of god..

don´t make it a buff for the ad carry.