Talk:Soraka/@comment-9551875-20141111160324/@comment-1330314-20141118052012

You're technically both right. Soraka's new heal was specifically designed to both be extremely powerful and have serious drawbacks: she can heal a teammate to full health as they're getting bursted down in the middle of a teamfight, but is also the only healer in the game to practically kill herself while doing so. Sona, Nami and Taric can't afford to have heals that come to that same level of power because their healing doesn't put them at risk, and that's fine because they're not meant to be risky healers. In Soraka's case, however, her healing power is meant to have a lot more variation, in that using it properly in conjunction with her other spells will allow her to dispense OP-level healing, but failing to do so will make her healing too risky to use, a problem other healers never encounter.