User blog comment:Yarrghman/Ba'al, the Soul Eater/@comment-7481207-20130411104918

The base damage on his E is way too low. Soraka's Q has 5 times longer cooldown, but has 12 times greater base damage on rank 1 and slightly more than 5 times greater base damage on rank 5. Plus, Soraka's Q is AoE that can hit very mana targets while his E will only ever deal damage to one.