Talk:Soraka/@comment-24.248.246.162-20120118205411/@comment-153579-20120122225246

OP sounds like someone who thinks that anyone with AP scaling should be stacking AP items all the time.

Supports don't work that way. In fact, you won't be seeing any AP items for a very long time in an average game. That's why you need the abilities to be awesome all by themselves, but Soraka falls apart in that regard because Silence is the only thing that remains constantly useful to the end game.

Sona falls off hard in the late game too, but only because the early game is godly, it's perfectly justified. Early levels in Q with Power Chord is unmatched in its poking ability. Movespeed boost is welcome throughout the entire game. The ultimate is an AOE skillshot stun. The heal is maybe the only thing that gets abandoned in the late game.

And Janna.... has no abilities to drop, ever. Q a ridiculously long-ranged AOE interrupt with flexible timings, and the flat damage bonus ensures it's not bad at farming. Zephyr is an immortal Ghost on steroids. Eye of the Storm is a great mid-game tower pushing ability thanks to the damage boost. Monsoon has crap tons of creative uses, and 600-health heal is the highest heal in the entire game, if you ever have the chance to use it in that way.

In summary: No.