Talk:Soraka/@comment-24823977-20141003111110/@comment-6281696-20141008163204

Which is exactly what a support is supposed to do, make her teammates shine. On their own they are supposed to be fairly bad. The same argument of being dependent on your ADC being decent can be made for every proper support. HOWEVER, since LoL obsesses over flashy "plays" as opposed to carefull intelligent tactics proper support can be very unsatisfying since your teammates screwing up once, or just being unlucky, can completly negate the past 30 minutes of keeping them save. Furthermore, again because of the obsession with plays and bursts a healer like soraka can become very frustrating to play with because the opposing mage can just instantly melt your carry before you even have the oppertunity to heal. On top of that, because of the ridiculous damage actually sustaining is borderline impossible. Being "poked" for 20-30% of your health is simply not something you can keep up with with healing (unless said healing is even more ridiculous). These three together can make her feel extremely weak in certain situations.

Lastly, sustain champions do not fit into the current kill obsessed meta at all, with the move towards "plays" battles of attrition, something soraka shines at, have become nigh on non existant. And even proper support champions do not really fit in the meta. The only reason supports have not yet been completly replaced by mages & bruisers with a modicum of CC is because the average team loads nearly all of their utility into the support and as such they simply NEED these dedicated utility champs. If teams moved to more a more "balanced" approach odd picks would suddenly become viable. To give an example, a team consisting of a Zed, a Vlad, an ADC & a Kha NEEDS a support with a lot of CC otherwise they basicly have none. However, a team consisting of say a Ziggs, a Malphite, a Maokai & an ADC does not need a utility focussed support because they already have a lot of it. The first type of team demands a dedicated utility champion as a support, the second does not. And the first is considerably more popular currently.