Talk:Soraka/@comment-4636093-20140923210141/@comment-1330314-20140925065341

I don't think Soraka could be as much of a sustain-bot as she is now: she can hang back and spam-heal her marksman to full, but doing so incurs a cost to her own health, so she's essentially shifting damage around. In order to actually get rid of the damage completely, she needs to poke with her Q, which would imply entering combat and therefore not hanging back as a simple heal-bot (the short range on her W also means she can't hang too far back). Soraka's new healing is powerful, but it's always going to carry risk or a tradeoff somewhere.