Talk:Soraka/@comment-24971427-20171220233739/@comment-26808509-20171228165522

It highly depends on the match up. Soraka has a good bully potential with her spammable Q (that even grants her sustain) in the early laning phases, so AP items that exploit this kinda playstyle can help her pretty well. Morello, an early Haunting Guise, even Luden's can make her a real pain. Lich Bane can do good aswell, but you won't be able to use your AA's in every situation/match up. It works well against meeles tho.

If you are not able to bully your opponent and shove him out of lane you can go for a scaling build, that will give you a lot of healing, kiting and somewhat damage late game. This would be something like Tear, Rod of Ages, Rabadons and Rylais.

If you however are in danger to be killed yourself or someone is bullying you instead, you can go for a more tanky and sustained focused build with either Rod of Ages or the Hextech GLP, Rylais, Spirit Visage ect.

You can even go as second support with a mixture of damage and healing power. Athenes into Arden Censar and additional AP items work really well, but you will need an additional damage dealer somewhere else with this build.

For runes you almost allways go for the Comet, because it's easy to land with Soraka's Q slow. Also its cooldown is reduced everytime you hit an enemy, 10% for AoEs by that. So a Q and E onto 5 enemies will reset the cooldown entirely. Summon Aery is good aswell of course, because she can use the shield of it as well as the damage in later phases, but it suits her better if you focus on her supportive character anyway, for offensive lanes I go comet.

The minor runes are allways situational, but I have some preferences. I never take Mana Flow Band for her, because I never feel like I need it, so either Ultimate Hat or Nullyfying Orb. And Scorch overshines the Storm in 90% of the games.