Talk:Soraka/@comment-3460935-20161105022436/@comment-26808509-20161106141747

Nah, I doubt that they will plan to rework her any time soon. She is in an ok spot right now, given a bit weak since the latest nerfs, but still she offers exactly what they want. This heal bot feeling, you mentioned, is exactly what they want for her. She is THE healer in league of legends. A utility healer is allready present (Sona) and if they nerfed Sorakas heals for more utility, there would be a conflict between both of them.

And granting health regen is a terrible idea. Riot tried multiple times to implement auras, that buff the base stats, but they allways were either hardly noticeable or too strong and lacked counterplay. Imagine a Soraka with such an ability. Either the buffed health regen wouldn't be noticeable, so you would never pick Soraka over any other Support or it would be too strong, so the ADC would heal CONSTANTLY and make poke comps even more useless against Soraka. For an active effect a buffed health regen would be too weak and making it a simple heal over time would just change her back to what she was in the early days (she allready had a heal over time once and it wasn't good). A heal is supposed to keep you longer in fights, because it grants you a larger health pool, but a heal over time doesn't quite work in-fight.

However, I agree that she is too non-interactive with the enemy team. Riot tried to force Soraka to go in and hit Q's on enemies, so she has to interact with them in order to heal a crap ton, but it didn't work THAT good. Sure, hitting a Q makes your heal stronger but the heal alon is good enough. What I would want is, that they reduce her W's base heal even more, but lower her health cost for compensation AND add a buff of some kind to her Rejuvation buff. Something like Armor, like the old Soraka, or something like that and it should scale with AP, so it's only effective on squishy AP builds. On this way her W spam wouldn't be as good anymore (literally the only thing, people are complaining about) and she had to hit Q's to get the buff for her allies.