Talk:Soraka/@comment-26808509-20150727123647/@comment-26837195-20150803075858

Actually, Soraka mid specifically counters close range assasins and poke. Her own poke deals more damage early on, while healing a lot more, and her silence makes it hard to combo her as leblanc or an assasin reliant on facerolling the keyboard while standing still.

She does have trouble against anything that can move while comboing (FIZZ!!! Maybe Akali, if you don't poke her down early enough to make her use shroud defensively), and her late game damage falls off very badly. Her strength later game is the fact she has so much sustain you won't need to b ever until laning phase ends (while your enemy laner usually does if you poke, especially with blue buff, thus making him fall behind), and the fact she carries by healing around 360 hp per second, or 720 hp per two seconds while still having more sustain than Vladimir. I end most games with around one or no kills, fifteen to twenty five assists and two to six deaths, and just get the jg fed by having them kill for me as if they were the ADC of mid lane wanting EXP and gold. Then roam and heal top while the fed jungler destroys the lane.

Xerath jg is just for fun, and good against early game farm junglers (Udyr and WW) or gank-and-don't-jungle-much (Lee Sin), but I'd never ever use him against Rek'Sai, Kha'Zix or aggressive junglers. As support, you're a walking stun, slow AND poke, if you play him like mid minus the last hitting and focus only on poking with spellthief, then take Rylai's (It's better because of your ult, which Twin Shadows will never help you with), you can seriously mess up even tank support's HP Bar and still have extra gold for yourself. The best part is that all his abilities damage both the ADC and the support if you're good at positioning, rather than just one.