Talk:Soraka/@comment-24823977-20141003111110/@comment-5955640-20141003171509

Laning against Soraka with these powers isn't as hard as you are making it out to be. She still holds a sustain comp but she has a strong weakness in lane. Namely that she can't directly heal herself and she takes damage healing her carry. If you trap the carry and almost kill them she won't get him back to health without using up a lot of her health to do so.

If you harass them both it becomes even more stressful the hold the lane. She can only get health back from Q's. Which are easy to dodge if you stay evasive. Mobility is also really good against her now as her silence AOE has a fair time to set into a snare so you can run out of it real quick if you are seiging her and get the kill on her.

Soraka used to be a champ you could focus on because she had no escapes. Into season four she could tank sustain the situation away but now she's back to square one in that regard. Hard CC with good mobility and she's dead because she can't heal herself and successfully run away like before. At level six she can start surviving a bit better but it's a waste of a really strong heal.

Honestly if that Soraka doesn't ge the Heal summoner spell and Mikeal's Crucible. She's sort of asking to get jumped.