Talk:Soraka/@comment-5955640-20140916054714/@comment-24055932-20140919151025

But that's the point of Soraka: With picking her you decide to go without huge stunlock power or harass, and instead decide playing to keep up your ally up in ressources in early game, and later on play as anti-assassin. That's why her old heal was big but on high CD and gave armor, and why her silence was instant: They were the tools to deny assassins - AP Assassins need to chain, therefore silence disrupts them really well, AD Assassins can also rely on autoattacks, so here you also need armor, as silence won't help here.

That were the two tools you picked her for - not for laning, but to help your carries to survive. As tradeoff Soraka has no possibilitiy to actually stunlock people or keep them off your Adc.