[2.3] Soraka Guide - How to heal with Soraka. (Emerald experiences)
How to heal with Soraka. (Emerald experiences)
Pros
- Strong in 2v2
- Late game healing is busted
- Possible to sustain Earlygame
- Early poke dmg
Cons
- Squishy and no mobility
- Poor damage output
- Medium - High skillcap
- Relied on items and gold and good team
Soraka Build
Best Build Guide for Soraka
Item Build Description
Additional information on the items
The
Rod of Ages
is quite important because it gives you health mana and AP, which is needed on Soraka. Her
Astral Infusion
scales with AP so in order to maximize you heal,
Rod of Ages
gives you the needed AP, while you go for
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
to be able to spam your
Astral Infusion
Warmog's Armor
is extremly useful to keep you HP high.
Astral Infusion
costs 10% of your max HP. So the passive of
Warmog's Armor
heals you 5% of your max HP when you didn‘t took damage in the 5 past seconds. Note:
Astral Infusion
does not count as damage and does not interrupt this passive.
As enchantment you will go for
Redeeming Enchant
to heal the whole team during teamfights or if you‘re dead.
As 3 item i want
Rabadon's Deathcap
to increase you healing even more. (At this point your max healing from
Astral Infusion
can be 577 every 1.4 seconds (while having Baron Nashor buff). Without you should be at around 350-400.
The last wo items are not as important because most of the rounds you won‘t even get it to
Rabadon's Deathcap
. The order of those two is not important. Both of them provide more healing. You can get
Athene's Unholy Grail
first if the ennemy team has a lot of AP damage.
Soraka Runes
Best Runes for Soraka
Font of Life
provides some extra healing for you and your teammates. It‘s good to get through the early game/laning phase.
Weakness
is a must. Your [soraka:1] slows the ennemy and by that they will get more damage while you heal yourself up.
Second Wind
and
Manaflow Band
allows you stay longer in lane and to keep your health up.
OPTIONALS
These runes are optional.
Summon Aery
can be useful if you think the ennemies will for sure go anti heal. In that case
Summon Aery
provides both poke damage and shielding.
Gathering Storm
is only useful if you have a really easy matchup (or if you know your team doesn’t need you much in the earlygame) because your earlygeam get‘s harder. Therefore you will be even stronger in the later stages of the game.
Pack Hunter
is extremly useful to get more gold, but as often mentionned, you need a good ADC (and team). Else it will be worthless. And you‘ll have quite often mana problems which may be a critical factor during teamfights.
Skill Order
How to distribute skill points
Summoner Spells
When to take which summoners
Combos
Learn how to maximize the champions potential
Hit the
Starcall
first because it gives yourself a regeneration. This regeneration also applies on allies you heal with your
Astral Infusion
.
This is one of the most important Combos of
Soraka
If you have a matchup against champions who are reliying on their abilities(like Ezreal, maybe Evelynn), then get at level 3
Equinox
first and then continue as shown above. This alows you to block their abilities and by that they will sit there like a duck.
Soraka Matchups & Counters
Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters
Every champion is a high threat. You don't want to take any damage, because else your
Warmog's Armor
passive is interrupted and you lose health due to your
Astral Infusion
and the damage of the ennemies.
Early-Mid Game
In order to manage the Early Game, you have to hit your
Starcall
. This allows you to stay alive. right after hitting level 2, get
Astral Infusion
and try to keep your ADC's health at 90% or above. When hitting leven three, you must decide if you need the mute from
Equinox
or if you want to sustain more. If you need the mute effect, get it and then continue as normal. As soon as you can buy the
Rod of Ages
get it. The sooner the better, because it scales over time, giving you more mana, health and AP.
Then look if your team is rather Early Game oriented. If so then go immediatly for [redeeming enchant] in order to heal the whole team during teamfights. Else you can go for
Warmog's Armor
to keep yourself alive while you heal your teammates.
Keep healing and getting items
Late Game
When you have
Rod of Ages
,
Warmog's Armor
and
Redeeming Enchant
you may notice that you're running out of mana quite fast. Ask your jungle if he can help you getting blue buff. Once you have blue buff, the three items above and enough health, you can heal the whole team during teamfights without dying. You won't run out of mana or health. Sometimes it's hard to keep them alive but it's ok if someone dies, try your best and keep healing and hitting with
Starcall
and eventually
Equinox
you'll deal some damage to the ennemies, disable their abilities, slow them and enhance your healing by hitting those. So stay safe in the backline, healing your team and winning the game. If some teammates get low health, use your
Wish
. Everyone below 35% health will get 150% healing of
Wish
(ex: instead of 360 they gain 480 health).
Tips
When you see that someone of your team is low health and the ennemy is following him, use your
Wish
! you'll save him and in general heal the whole team.
You may look sometimes on the map if it is really worth it or not, because once used, you have to wait 60-80 seconds before using it again. The opponent in your lane may use this to fight you and eventually kill you. So be carefull about it.
Well... Thanks
Thanks for reading this far. This is my first guide I've ever made, so if there is any issue/mistake, don't flame me.
Good luck and keep your team alive!
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