Talk:VPBE/@comment-26524757-20160226221546/@comment-24549025-20160227010545

I don't get the reasoning behind the shield toggle, behind just being a thing for her to do? Especially if it's going to be on a large cooldown, and especially since it then removes her ability to inflict Silence, which has been a staple of her abilities for a while and a very impactful aspect of her design.

Her heals are already extremely potent, but with a very evident price on her; if they were made less frequent, she'd need to be way ramped-up to maintain any viability — before, Soraka had a spammable proximity Q that targeted any and all units near her and reduced Magic Resistance, and then a point-and-click Silence on enemies/mana restore on allies, with a significantly more sporadic heal that was still very big. All of this together not only made her strong, but one of the hardest supports to delane, along with her lane partner as a result. This was also why solo-lane Soraka was a thing.

If they added the self-heal getting stronger based on how much she heals others to her current design, that would be a lot more interesting than the way it works presently, though.