Talk:Soraka/@comment-24971427-20170209193125/@comment-3964597-20170409182131

The E is one of the most broken non-ultimate abilities in the game WTF are you smoking. It's like the other half of the reason to pick Soraka. If someone else has CC then you can silence to prevent the enemy from flashing/dashing/shielding out, then by the time the first CC is done they get rooted. For example, a Soraka/Elise E combo is 4 seconds of CC, one that you can't flash out of.

It can be used defensively as well. Riven flashing in with ult? Silence her and watch her cry without her shield. Lee trying to Insec? Now he's awkwardly standing around. Yasuo ulting? His armor pen doesn't matter if he can't even press Q. You can single handedly shut down engages and turn around fights with the silence. You can win entirely games off of one well placed E.

Soraka is extremely team-reliant. You're correct in that her Q is minimal outside of the regen and the E won't catch anyone alone, but that's why you have a team. She's rather poor in low elo due to nobody knowing how to play around her silence but in Plat+ she becomes very effective.