She's had a massive nerf to her HP regen. The Golden Coin is a hell of a lot less effective on her now. So, in light of the recent nerf, how have you all adapted? Do you use Spellthief's now? How do you deal with her troublesome mana problems? What items do you think are core on her?
Linna Excel3 votesHow do you deal with her troublesome mana problems?
Rush a tear, she can stack it well enough.
NorthernDruid3 votesAnd Archangel's Staff/Seraph's Embrace is the cheapest 120(+) AP item in the game.
Fashion Mage2 votesIt works nicely with the Strength of Spirit mastery too. Multiple people have flamed me for building it on her, but honestly Archangel's is the ideal item for her. It gives HP regen via the SoS mastery, it's 2700gold for 120+ap, solves all her mana problems, she can charge it fairly easily, and the shield active is like building HP on her without actually increasing her maximum health.
Jamener2 votesThank you for pointing out this amazing synergy! Along with the HP regen runes that Sadistic Lulu suggested down below, this mastery and build path make Soraka's health regeneration (both stat-wise and Q+W interaction-wise) much more tolerable.
Jamener1 votesThanks for the suggestion! I've been building it after upgrading the Ancient Coin to the mid tier item and it's solved my mana problems almost completely!
Athenes Lulu2 votesAfter playing Raka for a while... I got some advice:
Hope this sorta helps. I'm still practicing on Raka support.
Jamener1 votesPersonally going to thank you because this has helped me immensely. Especially the HP regen runes. It really changes everything.
Terraeclipse2 votesI've actually started using spellthief on her, and getting mana regen (in the form of catalyst) asap. I later build that into a righteous glory, which provides a BETTER speed boost than the coin active (when chasing at least) and then does an aoe slow similar to randuins, while still having the hp/mana regen at level up.
I've also seen some people get warmogs or visage on her, for the extra regen, and while neither is a particularly fantastic item, I would say both have their uses and places.
Definitely get the sightstone of course, and locket/frozen heart as needed. And then whatever else you like. I just personally, as raka has limited hard cc, prefer to have frost queen AND righteous glory for the added cc, even if it is just slows.
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balbraaksel2 votesYou should kind of avoid raising her maximum health completely because it raises her costs to heal while not raising the health restoration from hitting a Q. She's best build with a full AP without any additional health.
Terraeclipse1 votesYou should kind of avoid raising her maximum health completely because it raises her costs to heal while not raising the health restoration from hitting a Q. She's best build with a full AP without any additional health.
Hmm, that seems interesting. I've seen both work. Personally, I prefer to build like above, but you make a good point that I hadn't considered.
Skia Asteri2 votes
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would not be a bad choice though.
Remember, the goal is to only need to heal allies once and for that to be enough.
balbraaksel2 votesBest is to ask your team to upgrade their trinkets so you don't have to buy a Sightstone. Health is horrible on her, it makes her healing cost more while making it harder for her to heal up to full. To me she's a design desaster because of that, Riot FORCES her to support but the item required for every support for warding is a horrible purchase on her.
Personally I think that if you get the Sightstone you shouldn't upgrade it.
StegosaurusToast2 votesRemember some champions have non-meta or funny counterparts
AD Attack speed Soraka is terrifying when you get her full build
My Banana Killer build finishes like so
Yulen Xoshxius1 votesWould this work on almost all cchampions?
StegosaurusToast1 votesno it kinda doesn't because Soraka's Attack Speed is higher then most supports and the life steal gives her amazing staying power with her Q returning health.... also RH is ranged only
Still it's amazing fun when you get a Banana double kill from RH Bolts
Jamener1 votesWhat boots do you recommend?
Athenes Lulu1 votes
for standard cases.
if you like a little more armor.
if you want tenacity.
Applies to almost every support as well.