Bring back Soraka's crit!

I've been giving this some thought, actually - they announced they wanted to ease up on some of the role lock-in for lanes and champions, and while supports were explicitly mentioned as being excluded from that (due to the balance difficulty they pose) I think it's possible to make Soraka work in such a way that she's not overpowered as a solo laner or underpowered as a support.

Wall of text incoming...

So, starting off, the goal is to add a way to play her as a mage without making her useless or overpowered as a support. This basically means her mage and support builds need to have divergent build paths, because supports simply don't get the same gold income and have more efficient items as a result.

The main difference between an enchanter support and a pure mage is AP. An enchanter will often have several utility items (sightstone, +%healing item, utility, etc.) in lieu of raw AP. Because nearly all of Soraka's utility comes in the form of healing, we already have a convenient non-AP way to scale her support performance that doesn't benefit from AP. In fact, we can take things a step further and fix one of her biggest post-rework flaws - her counterintuitive bonus health scaling.

To do this, we make her healing scale with bonus health instead of ability power and force her to build support items to heal well.

A numberless changelog could look something like this:

Salvation:

• Soraka's healing abilities benefit significantly more from %healing increases.

Starcall:

• Base damage lowered.
• AP scaling damage increased.
• Heal on enemy champion hit scales with bonus health instead of ability power.

Astral Infusion:

• Functionality changed: Now sacrifices a percentage of Soraka's maximum health to heal an allied champion for the amount lost.

Equinox:

• Unchanged.

Wish:

• Base healing and AP scaling reduced, bonus HP scaling added.

The change to her passive rewards her heavily for building classic enchanter support items when playing the support role, to the point where Michael's Crucible and Redemption would be necessary core items for her. She would then either branch into pure health items as a defensive support or AP/HP items if she was trying for some poke and damage.

Increasing the AP scalar on her Q would allow her to deal competitive damage, while shifting the health return from AP to Bonus HP would ensure that she wouldn't become an unstoppable top-lane sustain bot simply by building AP. Since there are a few HP/AP items, she'd see some health return as a mage, but the need to get CDR, mana, and AP would limit her ability to stack health like a pure support can.

Changing her ultimate is really just to adjust for the different sources of power. Both Mage and Support builds need to be able to use Wish to put back a large (but not insane) amount of health, and giving it dual-stat scaling ensures that both build paths will be able to do that.

As an added bonus, these changes would fit in very well with her existing theme of "healing through self sacrifice instead of divine grace," as well as fixing the irksome "buying the wrong item makes you actively bad at your primary job" problem she has with bonus health right now.

The biggest issue with this rework is that she might end up too tanky, although my hope is that adjusting the values on her passive would fix that by requiring her to build at least a couple +%healing items. It may also be necessary to cause her W to deactivate Warmog's passive, but given how few Sorakas actually reach the point of being able to activate that, I think have an end-game power spike fantasy isn't the worst thing to have happen to an enchanter support.

Thoughts?