Talk:Soraka/@comment-16367814-20131214092137/@comment-4046013-20131223234916

I haven't tried it in PvP, but it's a load of fun in bots to go Bananamune, AAS, and RoA, probably in that order. Her E becomes a legitimate nuke with just a Bananamune, and you can stack tears pretty quickly. Throw in 20-25% CDR from runes/masteries and Ionian boots and you're good to go. Rylai's has great synergy with the silence on her E, as well, but no mana there. :(

If this is ever found to be competetive in mid lane, then they'll probably just nerf Soraka into the ground like they did with Taric's previous passive - it used to be a really fun mana scaling passive on the PBE, but it was too strong, so they overnerfed it to the point that no one would ever buy mana on him, without ever testing anything in between. Riot is really paranoid about people finding fun alternative ways to play champions. We're lucky that Annie hasn't been ruined yet.

Riot wants supports to have these kind of scalings: damage scaling badly with AP, damage scaling badly with utility stats, utility scaling with AP. A cleric with two heals and a legitimate nuke that scales like a Ryze spell? I don't see a future for this, not from a company who refuses to support AD/AP hybrid itemization.