Talk:Soraka/@comment-5266525-20160227051648

Rough thoughts on the rework that's RicklessAbandon's been tweaking on the PBE for a few cycles now:

Support Raka's overall healing is getting severely nerfed - despite being able to exchange the new Alignment buff it won't be enough to compensate for the 40 base reduction on every heal she does. Keeping herself healthy and able to sustain this healing is also a much more serious concern now that she no longer receives any benefits from hitting multiple enemy champions and the self-heal numbers were harshly nerfed anyway. Alignment can even be partially wasted if she has more than 20% CDR (which she pretty much always will have). Her power has instead shifted into other forms of utility such as the slow on Q and movement speed buff when running away, which I find a bit disappointing considering that healing's her only intended niche.

Her solo lane's been buffed quite substantially by contrast. The same changes to W's level-up incentives also buff a Q max strategy so you don't have to compromise between damage and self-healing any more. Sweetspotting Q was also removed which lowers the difficulty in getting damage out from a followup E.