Talk:Soraka/@comment-29184214-20160901163853/@comment-26808509-20160905204538

I'm no friend of Warmog on Soraka, as you see in some comments below, and the problem I have with your build is the cost of these items and the order of building them. Rod of Ages for example is a really expensive item and supports usually don't get enough money to buy items like These without falling behind completly. Also Rod of Ages Needs time to stack it's values, so you have to buy it as early as possible, but you need to upgrade your Support at least once, so you get more money and you will need a Sightstone. So you will get Rod of Ages as third or even fourth item and it will be ready way too late. And the rest of your items are pretty expensive aswell, Rabadons for example is the most expensive item in the game. Also your build doesn't grant you any defense outside of flat health and health alone doesn't make you any tanky wihtout armor or mr to cover it - so you'll still be an easy pick. You don't have any utility outside of Ardent Censar aswell. Also Health just isn't any good for Soraka because of her max health cost. Imagine you have 3000 HP and 350 AP, as you said, you will heal for 410 ata cost of 300 own health (without hitting Q; with Q it will be 695 at a cost of 300). It's ok, but not really good for late game, sonce most squishies will have around 2000 health and tanks up to 4000. Now imagine you have 2000 health and around 500 AP (thats possible to reach with supportive AP items like Zekes, Ardent Censar and Banner of Command), you will heal for 500 at the cost of 200 (with Q 860 at the cost of 200). It is much more efficent, you pay less health and heal more. At the same time you have some defense through armor and mr from these items and some utility. I didn't count in the empowered heal from Ardent Censar because both versions have this item and the gap of the heal values would be even bigger.

Also, just for clarification: Health regen isn't Op on Soraka at all. Long, sustained fights aren't Sorakas weak point at all, but health regen only helps in these situations when you can stay back and constantly heal over a Long time, but this won't happen too much (not if the enemy Team has atleast one person with a brain). AP and utility Items are way better for Soraka for those burst heals, because bursting someone down faster than Soraka can heal him, is her real pain (or if she is getting focused herself, but for those situations you have th utility and defense items).