Talk:Soraka/@comment-3140213-20101103141324

Well, Soraka is my first champion, the first one for which I bought a skin, and I seriously consider buying the new one, for a change. I like her for many reasons. Her pathetic background story, how she sacrificed her former human appearance to exert a vain (and useless) revenge upon Warwick, her unusual look, and heven her gameplay. Yes, her gameplay. I did not found in Soraka a useless champion. Of course I'm not lvl 30 yet, and as such I have a modest experience of her, but I'm not going to pretend she is an absolute must have in a team either. A real asset, she is, tough, especially during the laning phase. She copes particulary well with a mage character, the more if her partner have a snare skill. Of course she has her drawbacks. IMHO, the worst is her lack of escape mechanism, which makes her very vulnerable to coordinated attacks even early game. I don't understand her being labelled as 'tough', maybe I'm doing something wrong ? Sona, for instance, has much more survivability chances, with a mass crowd control, a speed increase, and a non-targeted autoheal. But in a good team or even with a few optimal partners, she can help wreak havoc in ennemy ranks. I currently play her as a full support, distributing healing and mana on her lane, then supporting the whole team in later game. I use a cooldown reduction oriented item build, which can evolve later game toward a global support through aura or ally-oriented items (Soul shroud, Aegis, Shurelia's reverie, and even an Emblem of valour).