Talk:Soraka/@comment-25469998-20140927092912

Honestly, I love the new Soraka.

While I understand why some people hate the rework due the their own reason, I see that Soraka is much, much better now. Soraka was rarely played, and I'm pretty sure I have only played her 5 times ever since I started playing.

Her old Q used to shred mr, but it was pretty useless because really  nobody made use of it except maybe the better Soraka players. Sure W was a great heal and E restored mana which made your ADC happy and your lane opponents angry, but that's as far as contribution to the team goes as a backlane portable fountain.

While the new Soraka does encourage more aggressive play, it's more fun and more rewarding in my opinion. Sure the heal now consumes some of your own health, but that's why you can heal yourself using Q, and if you see that the idea doesn't work because Q is land to hard, it's just you being unable to land them.

Despite it being a trick to land due to how it takes longer to fall the farther it is from you, and it being dangerous to go in and try to land it because you can get focused, I find myself landing it 60% of the time, and as long as your teammates aren't idiots they should give you enough cover to be able to safely Q in and out constantly. (It's not any less dangrous to land than the old Q anyway.)

I found myself constantly setting up kills for my ADC with Q thanks to our opponents underestimating it. Sure it's not a hard CC stun like more often picked supports, but instead of stunning your target and leaving your ADC to do the damage, it softens them up over time just enough for your ADC to be able to get the kill quickly, and the slow works too.

And let's not forget the beautiful AOE silence root on E. It's hard to get it to root but when it does, it does wonders. And it's still a powerful silence.

The way I see it, new Soraka lets me make my own impact in lane, while old Soraka is just relying on the ADC to win the lane while "helping" him by being an endless Crystalline Flask. (Until you run out of mana.)