Talk:Soraka/@comment-4068613-20140923074702/@comment-1330314-20140923102909

It's not meant to punish Soraka for building health so much as discourage her from itemizing for bonus health. New Soraka isn't meant to be tanky, but nonetheless has several tools to kite her enemies and keep herself alive: your ability to support and survive should be dependent on your AP and your positioning, rather than the items you buy. Making Soraka's power scale in any way with her health would simply encourage health stacking, which would then bring us to her current state where she's both frustrating to play against when she's healing her allies, and frustrating to take down on her own.

That said, building health doesn't actually punish Soraka: even if you were to get some health from or, while your heals would cost more, they'd still cost the same percentage of your health, and whatever percentage that remains will be a greater flat amount than what you'd have if you didn't purchase health at all.