Talk:Soraka/@comment-5211971-20140323114120

As a Diamond Soraka player, after reading through these comments, this is what advice i have to give to everyone.

- If your in range to use Exhaust/Ignite, try using Heal or even CV if they have a Pantheon jungler. Your playing too aggressive if you are in range to use offensive summoners.

- Whenever the enemy team has a troublesome assasin. Hold onto your Infuse, and use it as the assasin  jumps in. They'll be in the middle of your team, unable to use abilities... you know what happens now ;).

- Whenever against Thresh, Leona - or any Hard Engage, abuse your silence range, whenever they seem to feel like engaging, quickly silence them and reposition/kill them before the fight even begins.

When against Blitzcrank, heal the grabbed victim Mid Grab, they'll have a signifcantly higher chance of simply walking away and/or blowing tons of cooldowns.

-Use Astral blessing preemptively. It gives a huge armour buff, sometimes, its better to block damage, rather then attempt to heal it back. Do this to Champions like Lucien/Graves who rely on an ad burst combo -- try to silence them before they use the combo then heal as the silence wears off. (you'll heal both the autoattack damage, and their abilities will do next to nothing.) Think of Astral blessing as a free Exhaust on an 22 Second cooldown.

-You function best with auras or selfish survival items. Locket, Frozen heart and Banshees veil are prime items on her. Bonus Magic resistance to allies, reduced attack speed and massive cooldown/Mana or surviving that Pesky Leblanc burst. Playing smart and surviving means your able to keep your team alive. Rather then instantly being burst down by the meta..

Soraka is a very forgiving champion, her kit allows her to keep entire teams alive when a mistake is made, or create a obnoxiously overpowering engage that cannot be defended against. She can buff focused targets aswell as negate entire waves of damage by simply silencing the right enemy whilst simutaneously creating a danger zone around herself whenever magic damage is present on your team.

She has very few counters (im not gonna say which champions, i grimace whenever i see them.) but the biggest counter, is insisting shes a HEAL BOT and nothing else.