Talk:Soraka/@comment-26808509-20150727123647/@comment-5266525-20150727212553

A desire to make her Q easier to land is, I think, because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what Soraka is good at.

Soraka does not have a 'safe' laning phase by any stretch of the word. Poke champions (like, and ) will demolish her without a second thought, and all-in champions (like ,  and ) are even worse if they manage to get their foot in the lane advantage door. She does modestly well against defensive peel supports (like and ) but she doesn't really have many positive early matchups on her own.

No, matchups for Soraka are generally decided by her marksman since so much of her power is in her healing. The people she pairs best with are champions like (, or ) who can pump out lots of damage and favour extended trades. Why? Because your heals means you'll auto-win any trade by default and landing Starcall is a LOT easier when opponents are already preoccupied with positioning themselves for their own spells and attacks.

There are ways you can weasel out easy Starcall hits outside of trading as well, casting it when someone goes in for a lasthit being the obvious example. She's not nearly as bad as you're implying she is.