Just played a game of ARAM as Soraka. We won and overall I'd say she's a rather strong champ. However, her passive is annoying as shit. It gives a very large speed boost when moving towards allies with under 40% hp. Well when you have 2 or 3 of them and they are in different cardinal directions relative to your position it makes it incredibly annoying to move around and try to land your q on the enemy team. It jerks around like it's lagging.
FaRmErX1 votesagreed soraka feels like she is lagged when she is moving in aram
Dessim81 votesHow is a healer who cuts their health by a lot to heal someone with half efficiency very good?
IlyaK19861 votesWarmogs regens her even if she uses her heal if she's above 3k max health ^_^
Zielmann1 votesShhhh, don't tell people about this!
I got to play it last night, and it was pretty hilarious, and disturbingly effective. Admittedly, it takes a while to get the build going (I think it was right around 17:30 game time that I passed 3k HP), but once I was there, I felt almost like a total troll.
It sorta also highlights some of why I feel new Mogs might be a bit much for ARAM (would prefer they put legacy Mogs back in for HA). You know there's a problem when a champion with a mechanic that encourages you to avoid HP stacking does it anyhow.
IlyaK19861 votesShhhh, don't tell people about this!
I got to play it last night, and it was pretty hilarious, and disturbingly effective. Admittedly, it takes a while to get the build going (I think it was right around 17:30 game time that I passed 3k HP), but once I was there, I felt almost like a total troll.
It sorta also highlights some of why I feel new Mogs might be a bit much for ARAM (would prefer they put legacy Mogs back in for HA). You know there's a problem when a champion with a mechanic that encourages you to avoid HP stacking does it anyhow.
Definitely disagree there. Even if I achieve that condition with Raka, it doesn't help when my allies get blown up anyway. Also considering that it's around 2600 gold for nothing beyond some HP of in-combat stats, it's no easy decision to get it.
Zielmann1 votesI'll agree that it requires the right team to have a proper chance to do it without possibly hindering your team in other areas. In my game, we had two solid front line / initiators plus two high-damage sources. I wasn't required to be that high-AP damage threat soraka that is required at times. And with the front line we had, I was able to stay safe and keep the mogs passive running for long enough in the fight for it to really make a difference.
But I still did reach CDR cap (I did have to upgrade my chalice to Athene's later on because I was out-surviving my mana pool). So I didn't feel like the amount of healing I was putting out was suffering that much. And I could cast heals on cooldown without a care in the world because my HP would just immediately tick back up.
Don't think it was straight-up OP. I'm sure it was frustrating to play against though (even if they wanted to pick off the healer to stop the heals, they couldn't). And I still believe that it even being a remotely valid option on a champion with a mechanic that's anti-HP stacking, it speaks to the strength of the item itself.
