Talk:Soraka/@comment-76.230.107.202-20110523030841/@comment-71.79.132.59-20110528063316


 * X I highly disagree with Soraka as being a "pure" support champion. Honestly, aura builds are stupid. You won a game because an OP champ got fed. That doesn't mean you won the game because you let her get fed. She's just plain OP. (And yes. She /is/ OP. People who say she isn't probably either play her or play massive CC characters. I have had a Vayne OUT LIFE STEAL tower hits with half a build.)

The BEST way to go Soraka is ToG, Boots, Kage's Lucky Pick, (Or Pick, Boots, ToG) Morello's, DFG, AAS, then two luxury items. You're getting your gold from assists and minion kills. Assists are a good source of gold, but they're not enough. 1 fed team>1 uber-fed champion, because if that 1 fed champion gets CC-locked or DC's, you're SOL and the other team's going to walk all over you because the rest of your mates have no kills. If my team is doing well, I will purposefully KS a teammate in a fight for 1-2 kills a game just so I can get an item faster. The more you heal and the more damage you provide the more useful you are to your team. What's better, +10 AD to 4 champions, or a ~700-1000 heal every 6 seconds to one champion (with the +80 armor buff) and a 1019-1451 global heal every minute? Plus a spammable Q with actual damage and good damage on your E? Plus, aura builds depend heavily on you survivng the fight and still being "in" it. Which means being /very/ good at positioning and relying on your team tanks to actually try to help you stay alive. In solo queue, you can't depend on that.