Talk:Soraka/@comment-5686533-20140418191836/@comment-3308937-20140418202218

I just played against one in a teambuilder game as Karma, probably the strongest poke supp atm, and I was basically useless between Soraka and double summoner heal. The lane matchup was Karma/Draven vs Soraka/Miss Fortune, all poke was negated, all-ins were useless because by the time the massive armor buff or silence wore off one of us were already under half from MF's high damage. It was just extremely unfun to play because no matter what we did we always lost every trade, one gank with our jungler brought MF to under 100 health and then there she was in lane not 10 seconds later with like 70% health.

I understand that they're extremely vulnerable to ganks, Soraka can't really peel for MF who doesn't have self-peel herself so their teamfighting isn't all that strong but losing lane with basically no options watching all your hard work get flushed away every 15-20 seconds is beyond frustrating.

tl;dr: Soraka needs to be in the state she is until she can get some sort of kit rework, she's the least interactive support in the game and completely trivializes common game elements like resource management, smart harass, etc. in the early game. If you don't pick someone like Leona or Thresh, both of whom she can harass early, you basically either pray they make a mistake you can capitlize on or just sit back and wait for help from other lanes.