[2.3] Soraka Guide - Goat Mom's Babysitting Guide

1. Your Starcall  provides vision, if your good at targeting and you're on the non-mirrored side you can steal the enemy vision plant without needing to ward.
2.  Position, Vision and Keeping you and your team alive are key, you gotta learn how to position yourself well to do well on Soraka , she's a squishy enchanter with big rewards and big risks.
3. If you have a duo you do much better, follow ups on an aggressive Soraka can win lanes very quickly, not only in bottom lane but other lanes.
4. Predicting people's movements with Equinox is also important, when you master it, it's a snare not a silence, it's a game changer in objective fights, and nuisance for early game fights.
5. Use  Starcall slow to your advantage, people underestimate Soraka 's cc potential, use that to your advantage.
6. Pay attention to your map, vision is a support's priority, you have to learn how to periodically warn your team of possible threats with wards and pings.
7. Pocket Heal the carry, See if someone is good or a possible carry, try to keep them alive as much as possible, these people win you games.
8. Your Astral Infusion prioritizes the lowest hp, just tap if you need to quick heal, if you need precise healing I recommend smart aiming it instead, tho this helps in hectic fights.
9. Level according to the match, this guides uses my most used skill leveling path, but that's not what I go every match, if your lvl 1 Astral Infusion is being enough, level Starcall if your team is dying too fast or your adc is carrying but takes too much damage, level Astral Infusion first

Try to outheal the enemy support with Starcall 's rejuvenation and Astral Infusion or ruin the enemy adc's gold advantage by zoning them with Starcall and Equinox , if your adc is good you can prioritize zoning them, pay attention to your mana at all times, if you're running out of mana too often, try buying Tear of the Goddess or and try to stay in lane before level 5 for your Wish and gold advantage, ward when you can and if you see the enemy jungler in the other side of the map try to ward deeper, pay attention to the map so you can help your jungler if it's early game and try to get to that 1100 gold recall when you can for Lost Chapter and Blasting Wand . Once you get your Wish , start paying attention to other lanes while micro managing yours, see the teams health bar and try to Wish to save other laners IF YOU CAN SAVE THEM, do not waste your Wish on bad players.

Roam between lanes while putting wards, this is risky but you want to keep your whole team alive while maintaining map advantage, if your team is winning you can prioritize pocket healing the carry with Astral Infusion , if your jungler is good you can help him bully the enemy team, overall, Astral Infusion , Wish , Redeeming Enchant , repeat

Assuming you got to this point, your team is either A: bad at taking turrets, B: Losing or C: in a stalemate.

• if A, Try to keep them alive for sieges, someday you'll take the enemy nexus and win.
• If B: Try to play safe in turrets, don't  follow  your team without vision, don't get picked off, try to keep them alive with Astral Infusion while zoning the enemy away with Equinox , look for a good  teamfight and win the game in a single fight. 
• If C: Use Redeeming Enchant for every fight, try to Wish when your team is half hp, watch out for grievious wounds and Astral Infusion early if you need to, use Equinox 's snare to it's full potential, if you catch 2 people out of position you can win the game.

Late game objectives: try to keep your team alive, baron kills you very fast, dragon is a bit safer, so don't go too close for it, and also try to keep enemy team zoned out with Starcall and Equinox if they're still alive.

•  This is a full speed Soraka strat I came up with after a losing streak with average build, this build is to counter solo queue stupidity. Your early game is totally skipped, your priority is try to keep in between lanes with your adc, the river and jungle and mid if possible, you wanna roam as much as you can with Boots of Swiftness and [ghost] so you can heal your team and ruin 1x1s. If you wanna be a nuisance, go annoy the enemy jungler by Starcall and Equinox him in scuttle or cancelling his buff fights by baiting it and Starcall out of the fight, this is a risky playstyle that I do not recommend.
•  Mid game is pretty much the same as average with the exception you have double the speed of an average Soraka with Boots of Swiftness and [ghost], your priority is being annoying and heal your team in the process, if you notice you're getting targetted (which happens a lot in this strat), build Dead Man's Plate or Spirit Visage and be tank Soraka , but you need to have Redeeming Enchant and Harmonic Echo before this; Being tanky is good because you can be a nuisance and play aggressively while also being weirdly tanky if you get jumped on, this works specially well if the team has a big ad comp or ap comp, or just burst assassins like Rengar , Kha'Zix or Evelynn . 
• Late game, you're gonna be tanky, and fast, if your team is grouped, help them as usual, if they're not, keep warding and be that ambulance of your dreams, swapping between lanes at minimum 600 movement speed.

With the new update adding Font of Life , Summon Aery has become a less effective option, your early game remains normal but you have to pay more attention to your mana now that regeneration is out of the picture, Mages and assassins have become more effective with the buff of Gathering Storm but so did  you, you do more damage than before, but don't let that make you overextend and get bursted by new mage damage.