Talk:Soraka/@comment-5266525-20160227051648/@comment-26808509-20160227123002

Because non of the others can spam heal like Raka. The other healer offer a sustained lane and can turn the tides in a fight with a good placed heal, but Soraka can heal all the damage the enemies deal away - sustained on the lane like the others and of course non stop in fights. When the rework of Raka kickt in Riot said healing is unfun to the game because dealing damage to your enemies is fun and seeing this damage disappear is unfun, so they build in the health cost of Rakas W. They made her to an infuse healer which has to transfere the damage: her ally recives the damage, you heal him (so you have some damage because of the life cost) and then you Q the enemy and damage them to heal yourself. And yet Riot sees that the nice little idea they had doesn't function or moreover is ignored by the players because everyone just builds health reg. instead of throwing Q's. Currently only the half of the planned "circulation of damage" is used so they try to improve it with changes that a meant to encourage using Q (lower CD, lower cost, slow on the whole field, self heal) but at the expense of her self heal itself. They also want to limit her combat heal with the selfheal beeing weaker and over time so it's harder for her to spam her heal. On the other hand she grants her allys utility with the new alignment and Q is more usefull in fights so it's a buff to her overall combat performans. It's like they want her to be THE combat healer (not the sustained lane healer like the others) but not because her rough healing power but utility and smart used Q's and Alignments.

On the paper it looks interesting, the numbers have to be tuned of course, but we should just wait and see what happens next.