User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/Least popular champions/@comment-5185239-20130125022429/@comment-5185239-20130126182251

''Whole problem comes from that her skills can't be missed or badly used, otherwise they will become useless. ''

Isn't this with, like, every champ? Spells which are missed mostly become useless.

''Dude, Soraka is made mostly for sustain. She can heal so much and then return mana/silence the enemy. And that's all, maybe some magic resistance can drop after 2-3 starcalls.''

And thats what you would pick her for. To sustain your champ and farm up for mid/late game. Not to mention she's good for poking comps and has a reliable CC.

''Then, look back at Karma. Less healing? So what? Have you ever noticed that it's AoE healing scaling for base + % of missing health that also deals damage, burning hell out of enemies in teamfights if you are building AP?''

Thank god you need weak AoE heals on the bot lane, where your AD carry wont need excessive amounts of heal, but rather damage "if" you build AP. Heck, Taric provides better heal and burst for most of the laning phase.

''High AP scalling shield with AoE damage is weak? Freaking goddamit, so what is good in your opinion?''

''I didn't said it's weak, I said it has no secondary effect unlike Jannas which grants up to 50 AD or Lulus which grants AP. ''

W has weak slow, but long duration which can be used for chasing a single enemy.

Soraka E being a 3 second silence fucking up AP's; Taric E being a stun and killing people off-guard; Janna granting knock-backs and slows + move speed as a passive; Lulu offering Movespeed and slows and polymorph; Sona having a AoE stun + movespeed buff + slow; and so on. Fact is, every support has superior CC.

''E is pretty good shield that can change damage trades. Also can deal damage.''

Every shield changes damage trades because you don't lose health...

Fact is, Karmas kit right now is useless for most lanes and a rework is needed in order to get her to be played more frequent.