You kill your team if you don't keep vision. That's simply bad play.

Hey Pali199,



Don't worry I'm not going to blame anyone lol. I always say, play the way you feel like works best for you. It's better to play what's more comfortable for you than play in a way that doesn't work for you. For example you can suggest a new player that x champion is really good and strong, but if they're not good at that champion they'll suck.

Anways, here are my thoughts/opinions:

I agree that Talisman and FQC's are great items and have great actives (as stand alone items). Yes, I've seen FQC being popular some time ago on mid laners. Talisman has saved me many times aswell back when I thought it was the best build (when Oasis/Watchers/Equinox items didn't exist).

I'm wondering if perhaps you're not getting too close to enemies. I never build Talisman and I'm doing alright on avoiding to be caught without the active, it's very important to realize how much space there is between yourself, your allies and the enemies. In some situations, for example a triangle (you, ally, enemy) you want to run around your low health teammate to take more distance from the enemy while you heal the low health ally, to avoid being targeted while also saving your teammate.

It really comes down to positioning yourself relative to your allies and enemies, movement speed helps with that, however the active sacrifices on vision. Now I don't know what rank you are and it doesn't really matter what rank you are but usually in low elo games like bronze and sometimes silver you can get away with not getting too much vision, however from gold and higher, vision becomes really important. The higher ranked the elo games get the more people will utilize vision incredible well. Just one ward can make a difference in knowing where the jungler is and what path he'll take and what he will do the next 60 secs. Imagine what 3 wards (and a control ward) can do.

Redemption is an okay item, there's a couple of things I don't like about it which I've mentioned in older posts but it works fine.

As for Locket, some people like to have a bit more defensive stats which is fine. I usually suggest to go for Armor, MR, movement speed or hp regen items and avoid items with HP, Zz'Rot is a decent item if you want some defensive stats and also gives you the passive that Talisman has, so maybe you can take Oasis/Watchers instead Talisman and then switch Locket out for Zz'Rot so you still keep the movement speed passive whilst having alot defensive stats.

As for Tear, it's usually an item you wanna buy early to stack it up, but since Soraka isn't too mana hungry early game you can completely skip it until you have enough gold to straight go from Needlessly large rod into Archangel's Staff 6th item. That way you need less gold to complete the item and also benefit from the 60 AP rather than having a bunch of mana regen which you don't really need that much. It comes down to the following: if the game goes on really really long you'll probably have time to stack it up when you have the full build and eventually gain a shield active for yourself if the game is still going on.

Again, build what feels the best for you but give it a shot try building them, try to make it work and maybe you'll do really good with it :) you can always go back to other items if you can't make it work.

Cya around!