You're welcome :D

OwO <3

Slap a Gargoyle Stoneplate on top of the build and we're bigger, stronker and faster than Cho'gath XD I'm just kidding. Man that does remind me of the good Force of Nature days when the item actually made alot of sense for the heavy regen against heavy AP teams and your W didn't even end up getting a negative effect out of it (HP use wasn't increased cos FoN didn't have any HP on it). https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Force_of_Nature#Revisions

That used to be pretty fun :D

You're nicer <3

I'm assuming you meant to say wouldn't?

Yeah I mean if they're already on top of your booty then you might wanna have barrier, whatever works best for you <3

I just play as Jerry (the mouse from Tom and Jerry) and always roll with exhaust and flash. I make sure they never get on my booty. It's really a cat and mouse game. Kinda like being an assassin, but instead of finding opportunities/moments to execute your enemies you dip in and out of situations to help your teammates with phat heals, silences and damage reductions.

I always say, whatever works best for you, roll with that. Forcing someone to play a certain playstyle doesn't work in their favour. It's just what I found myself working the best for me.

Have fun :D

Sounds like that Mordekaiser really likes building anti-heal, too bad for him they don't stack XD
How was Mordekaiser's room like, was it messy? Filled with metal band posters and electric guitars? Jokes aside XD Good job on escaping the Death Realm! He should've just went with Morellonomicon.. or Thornmail if your team was heavy on physical dmg.

All you gotta know is that the GW items apply 40% healing reduction. Both Chemtech Putrifier and Morellonomicon applies GW by dealing magic to the enemy champions, whilst Thornmail applies GW when champions auto attack the player with Thornmail.

All three of them can also increase the effect to 60%. For Chemtech Putrifier it's healing or shielding allies. For Morellonomicon they gotta be under 50% of their max hp. For Thornmail your enemies got to be immobilized.

There's not much you can do against anti-heal, it's a counter build item. Things you can do however is dodging abilities so that GW doesn't apply on you. That way atleast you still get full benefit out of the heals from landing Q's and using your R.

EDIT: As of patch 11.18 when using R, Grievous Wounds gets removed from all targets before applying the ultimate heal.

Hope that helps!

Hey you're welcome :D hope the msg above still comes in handy <3

You're too dang kind! Please do consider joining the Discord https://discord.gg/RM23954

It'd be a blast hanging out with you <3

If anyone else reads this feel free to join aswell, everyone's more than welcome :D

Message went missing, careful bot lane! XD

Hey hinst,

Personally I like it when there are new big changes made to the game, it keeps the game fresh. This is how I've been playing Soraka ever since her W passive was moved to her Q, maxing Q makes her focused on poking early on in the game, while your W scales into mid game.

Most of the healer/shielder supports have both tasks to heal/shield and damage/poke. Some champion kits are focused more on the poking whilst others are more focused on the defensive healing/shielding. However to unlock a supports true potential you'll always have to be doing both tasks.

So the way you should strive to play Soraka (and other squishy supports) is that you want to avoid all damage, aswell as basic attacks, skill shots and crowd control, at all times during the whole game. You're way better off having your allies/adc tank the damage because of how squishy healing/shielding supports are.

If your adc is face tanking all the damage and not bothering to dodge, you should not heal them right away. This will make your low health adc play safer and your enemies play more aggro, therefore landing your Q's will be easier. Once you hit your Q at full health you heal your low health adc. During that period your adc will hopefully realize that you can't pump out heals unlimited because you force him to play safer for a period of time.



The same can be said when someone has no mana. I see what you're saying though, dying is more risky when at low health, and this is why Q max is favored, it's health regen is stronger, but you will have to land your Q for it. It sounds simple but champions like Nami and Sona just have to point and click or be in range once they have enough mana to heal again, but for Soraka you actually have to land your Q skill shot to achieve the same goal. This is the exact reason why landing your Q's as Soraka is a very important factor.

As far as health regen you can also choose to swap Athene's for Mikael's for more hp sustain, but again your Q is the more important factor.

Getting through the early game as a squishy support is really the main focus, once you're in mid game you really start to shine. You don't necessarily need to go super hard early game, as long as you go even it should be fine, even if your adc is slighty out pushed it's okay, you can usually help them clear the wave with your Q on the mage creeps so your tower doesn't take too much damage.

Hope you can take those tips home and take them to your advantage :3

You might be right, but that was the whole point of Soraka, I guess. That must be another reason of why Raka is not being played on tournament thing. Enemy already dealing and even little numbers determines who is going to win or lose; and Raka at this point, can be initiated hard by enemy supports, Ignites and so, also Bramble Vest is a problem when playing Raka, because your very heal becomes like 120 instead of 150-300, other sups such as Janna deals really visible damage with W max build and so, she can heal herself and her allies while shielding ability isn't affected by healing-reduction. Like if no one is every going to ''touch'' Soraka, using your both mana and health is at that rate is perhaps too utopic for being serious, if it was a RPG game, perhaps use your HP to heal idea would work better, yet it feels a tyranny age for supports, some champions becomes irrelevantly strong, a Kha' can deal nearly 70% HP damage in mere secs with completed Draktharr as first item, while other some champions can't catch that power-spike, game is sitting in an absurd place right now, I guess. And Riot's acting seems like it is their way of understanding, support or other roles, best example of the game right could be this sentence, I guess. ''If everything is unbalanced, nothing is.'', Also having to decide between Revitalize or Cosmic Insight, lol even some natural users of healing magic are unable to pick healing rune ''revitalize''; in an optimal page?