Talk:Soraka/@comment-26433263-20150525180028/@comment-5266525-20150525224901

If you end up building a lot of health on Soraka, you will actually be killing your healing output.

Think about it. Since you have little AP, your healing to HP ratio is very low, so your total healing you can do before you really need to start healing yourself back up is also low because you're still paying 10% of your health per cast. To make matters worse, since you went for health over AP, the % of your health that Starcall will heal is pathetic.

You'll either have to dart around at like sub-20% health to make your self-healing worthwhile (rendering your tankiness pointless) or settle for not actually healing much in the first place (rendering picking Soraka at all pointless).

Now, there IS an argument to be made that if the enemy consistently decides to shoot the medic first that tanky Soraka won't be instagibbed and so is better, but health is definitely not the way to do it. Armor and MR synergise perfectly with her. Use that instead.

Of course, if the enemy does not or cannot kill you easily, then balls-to-the-wall AP is where it's at. She works stupidly well against tanky teams with low damage output and little dive potential, because they sure as hell won't be killing you or the guy you're healing.