Talk:Soraka/@comment-13750767-20140303155638

I'm considering doing Soraka top as a regular thing. Having seen it done once this week, and subsequently trying it my self a couple times, I'm confident in saying that it dominates most, if not all melee top laners, and lets her get major breathing room against ranged ones like Teemo that would otherwise poke the competition to death.

Her Starcall is so obscenely strong early on that enemies can't hope to trade with you, especially not once you have all three of your basic skills to poke and sustain with. Jungler ganks are barely ever setbacks, because she doesn't lose any dps in fighting one or two enemies, and on two occasions I've managed to get early kills through junglers that underestimated my burst potential. I've yet to find a matchup where the enemy hasn't been forced to either lane swap or outright surrender the tower.

The only issue I've had so far is that I need to build mass AP to out-trade the dps monsters of top lane, so unless we have an AD mid or a Gragas, that means our team-wide health suffers for it, so we need a tankier team to make up for the lack of a beefy top lane. Monstrous AOE damage in exchanged for being focused in every teamfight isn't exactly an uncommon tradeoff though.

What do you guys think. Is it viable, or did I just get lucky this far?