Talk:Soraka/@comment-25463030-20140925150611/@comment-11013454-20140926174324

You missed my point too.

please suggest something her Q and E could have been that don't invovle giving mana or buffing the target to justify not doing damage, the thing that acutally wins the game. Because yoo can heal something til it's blue in the face but if it's not doing damage it's useless, and so are you ebcause you have none because you're a 'unique' white mage.

Because bufing the target  exsists already with all the other supports, so you're not getting much more uniqueness there. All the other supports have every buff under the sun if you join them all together.

Mana giving is pointless from midgame onward and pretty uselessfeeling if your team consistes of champs that don't use mana. And as mentioned, full sustain makes the lane a chore that the enemy just doesn't want to deal with at all. She hasn't lost her silencing ablitity.

Soraka seems pretty darn special to me now. Theres no other champion like her, the only one who makes a willing sacrifice for the benefit of the team. If you REALLY want to boil her uniqueness down to 'another support champion with damage' then you don't understand the term 'unique'. Somethign doesn't stop being unique because you've added a mechanic.

Yes. Sona and Nami can also heal and do damage. What makes each one unique?

Sona's gives a shield with her heal in an aoe in adition to a 2 person heal.

Nami's heal bounces  and can even scale higher with each bounce, not to mention that it doubles as a damage spell.

Soraka's heal is on the shortest cooldown in the game, the shortest range and costs HP to compensate for how blinding op it would be without it.

All three of those skills were heals. They're all similar. theres 100+ champions in this game, skills are going to be similar. But if you descibe each one, they sound entirely diffrent don't they. THAT is uniqueness. Nami, Sona and Soraka have their own entirely personal way of healing someone.

I know this is just sounding like hot air, becauase you just want old soraka back, the soraka you like and comfortable with. But don't acuse her of not being unique. Because she is.She can do 5 things no other champion can in the specific way she does it. She's just not the unique you like, and that's dissaponting but it's ultimately your choice whether you like it or not. Regardless, she's alot healthier and viable now than she was before, and as someone who acutally likes soraka and has played her since i started 4 years ago, i welcome the improvment as long as i can acutally be useful in more then 'white mage' situations. and by damn she can heal now. she can heal real good.