Talk:Soraka/@comment-27376572-20160601134741/@comment-11013454-20160604093230

Well.

She IS supposed to be the best healer in the game. Someone who has 'that' title is gonna be like that. Nami and Taric aren't centered around their healing, it's more ablitiltes that complement their style rather than their defining feature. Nami has more combat speed and CC in her kit to make her better at helping initiation and fending off/trapping targets as needed. Taric's heal is very lackluster compared to most heals in the game and instead focuses more on direct protection (Prevention is better thana  cure).

This is a design problem you can't really 'fix' on someone who is 'the healer', atleast, not entirely.Healing damage is, by design, a reactive thing. They are a problem fixer. And I can tell you that of the people who heal, soraka is one that argubly spends the most resources to do so (Taric's high mana costs can be counted but most people don't levle that up anyway because of how not worth it is). Shields usually come with a secondary effect too, like how Janna's increases AD, Karma's give you a speed boost, taric initiates abilites from his shield target etc, making them better for proactive instead of reactive ones. Depending on the match up, either method could be better. In a good enough deal of team comps, you need what nami/Taric provide more than healing (harder CC, speed, damage reduction). In the end, Soraka is only as strong as the strongest person she's healing. If that strongest person is trash, then she is trash. She can do nothing else, that's what happens when you're "So" good at one thing that your playstyle depends on it.

They have gone through LENGTHS to repeatly make sure soraka isn't OP. I remember when soraka's heal was a 10 second cast at double the base heal values and also gave armour coupled with her free mana skill. Compared to that she's WAY WAY weaker