Talk:Soraka/@comment-67.169.207.175-20110125085846

I have found an extremely useful build for Soraka and don't believe her useless anymore. I managed to score 18/5/21 on a 5v5 match. Here's what you have to do:

Focus entirely on her 'q' and use it as often as possible. She is incredibly useful for damaging minions as well as champs, especially in the early and mid of the game. This is because she wipes out the minions so incredibly fast, which keeps pushing the opposing champions further back. 'q' is relatively cheap, but if you want to keep it going indefinitely and do noticeable damage quickly on everything you're near (including for jungling), here's what you need (in this order):

Archangel's Staff, Ionian Boots of Lucidity, Rabadon's Deathcap, Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich's Bane, Nashor's Tooth (or Frozen Mallet).

Also keep in mind that she does NOT need mana regen by mid to late game, assuming you get the Archangel's Staff. Her 'e' is more than enough to keep your mana supplied while constantly spamming 'q'. And health regen is extremely pointless - I was able to come back to full health in seconds from almost no health after being ganked with 'w'. By late game, getting low in health is a very brief problem.

Given how short 'q's cooldown is already (extra 25% reduced with Nashor's and 15% with Ionian), your Lich Bane will proc constantly with every attack you do and with the freezing effect of the Mallet (if you picked that instead of Nashor's), champs are taking 500/hit + 'q' resulting in very quick champ kills.

This is also assuming you are able to keep your distance because otherwise, I'd replace the Nashor's/Mallet with a Thornmail - the armor really helps and the damage to opponent champs is enough to make them leave you alone to quickly restore your hp and mana.

I was surprised that Soraka didn't suck as much as I thought - give her a chance, try what I said out and you'll see.