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Spection's Guide to Soraka [S7 RANK #14 NA, #86 WORLDWIDE] [S11 GM]

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Lovely guide! Thank you <3

There is no way you updated this guide in 2021 coin hasn't been an item sense season 9 and dark seal hasn't given mana sense season 10

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that revitalize on soraka so good

awesome

Hi, I'm a bit new to league, so I was wondering if the double magic resist in the runes was a troll or something that I should actually take. Wouldn't it be better to get double armor since usually the bot lane carry is physical damage?

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Hi! Defensive runes are purely situational. It will generally depend on what type of damage you expect to take in lane (or from jungle ganks). Information apps like blitz.gg or porofessor.gg will advise you on how much magic vs physical damage dealt by opponents and which rune will serve you better.

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Great guide! I'm an avid Soraka support, so It's nice to come across a guide that's offering a different way to play her. Gonna try this build later one tonight and see how it works out. Keep up the good-work creating content that is thorough and interesting to read. If this build becomes OP for me to play, I'll definitely come back and leave another comment for you.
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Nice job!

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Hope you found success with it! If you didn't on the first go don't be discouraged as it can take time to find success with this playstyle because it's so different than the traditional playstyle.

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Hey Spection,
I love that you actually spent your time with sharing all your thoughts and experiences to create this guide and help other people. Especially your Ranked section was what intrigued me the most.
However as main Nami in S8 I saw a lot of Sorakas and most of the time I could easily shut them down. Of course you may argue that I'm only playing with people ranged from Bronze to Platinum but I don't really consider a Nami as easy when playing as Soraka. When playing wisely you can easily drain out Soraka by poking her and the enemy ADC and denying her to heal up or gain enough mana again. That's why I'd put Nami somewhere into the yellow section.
Anyway very well done. :)

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Generally, as Soraka, if you play the lane properly you should never be in range for nami to use any of her abilities. Your E and Q both outrange her significantly. I'm guessing you're just an experienced nami player who knows how to take advantage of the positioning errors the enemy sorakas make. If you do play against one who positions properly, you will get poked down and will never be able to land any of your abilities.

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It's possible but I usually use my W on my ADC when she's trying to land a Q since the range of Nami's W is kinda huge and you don't necessarily need to catch Soraka with Nami's Q because if you get the ADC, you can try to starve out Soraka or just immediately use the Ult, Tidal Wave. Even if you don't get a kill, the enemies will have to recall, allowing your ADC to get ahead in farm.
But you're probably right that I'm simply waiting for the other Sorakas to make mistakes to hunt them down then. :d Who knows.

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Yeah! A lot of people don't understand the bounce range of Nami. I think it's quite strong, having played a fair amount of Nami this season. However, a good soraka will position to account for this. The delay of the W bounce from Nami to ADC is generally enough for the Soraka to walk out if she's aware.

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Yeah of course she'll try to walk out of it but if you play cleverly, you could drain her health because Soraka will want to heal her ADC back so you try to repeat that kind of thing a lot and hope your ADC will be clever and fast enough to sidestep Soraka's Qs - at least more of the times. :d With Nami's Bubble (Q) she could even stun the enemy ADC and Soraka will have to work hard to heal back the taken damage which would drain her health a lot. That's usually how I passively love to poke Soraka down. :>

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Most matchups can be taken advantage of if you play well.

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Yep that's true. Anyway, thanks for the very nice and informative talk. (:
Very appreciated.

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No problem. Thanks for stopping by and the chat!

Can you please update threat levels? I see that pyke and kai sa is missing

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Done.

Hi Spection,
Why do you consider to be so good? and why not start with a as a starting item instead of Ancient Coin... is there an extra amount of gold earned comparing both the starting items ?? (with the extra gold / mana dropped by dead minions when you take Ancient Coin first)
Thank you in advance.

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Hey gameboyAdv, I was just playing Donkey Kong Country 2 on one a few days ago. Great device.

As for your question, I think ancient coin is superior because of how strongly reliable the gold generation is in almost every elo. It is very easy to get all the coins that spawn without being punished, and you can almost always get the quest done quicker than the eye of the watchers quest. In addition, ancient coin has health regen which allows you to use your W more frequently. However, in matchups where you intend to max Q and poke as much as possible, Spellthiefs is definitely quite viable and is capable of generating more gold than Ancient Coin (although you would have to be poking almost constantly to achieve this)

Hope this helped!

Thank you for you feedback!
Yes I get it now, it all comes down to the play style, when aggressively poking then Spellthiefs otherwise Ancient Coin to play passive support with chance of more gold income :)

Hello, great guide! I just wanted to ask you two things;
First; synergies with ADC
second; Detail the reason for your choice of objects individually ... and your opinion about Athenera's impure grail.

(Sorry for my English so bad)

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Hey there Lexas,

Soraka works really great with ADCs that have lack any form of innate health sustain like or . She really helps overcome a big weakness of those champions. ADCs that she can stay close to and heal are really good later in the game, it can be harder for her to heal a or a if they dive into a teamfight and get away from you. can help with this, however. If you mouse over the notes button in my build path, you can find a description of what each item offers and why you should take it. I hope this helped!

Oh! thanks!!!!!

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Hi! I was just passing by and I saw some coding mistakes:
- you missed a [/columns] at the end of pros/cons and summoner's spells
- I think there is a formatting mistake when you explain wish (+there is still a piece of information about )
- just a wrong database linking with inside the rune section

Everything else is ok, nice guide!

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Hey there, thank you so much for catching these mistakes. Hard for me to get all of them! Appreciate your kind feedback as well.

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%heal effect from all % heal items got reduced in latest patch 8.12 NOOOOO #notlikethis

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Nice Soraka guide!

I can see you favor stacking AP to get more healing, I tried this and wow it was awesome! Still, I believe you should adding a section on options for some defensive utility items (i.e. a Locket with Talisman and Ruby Sightstone instead of Watchers), as the Locket is essentially another small wish in shield form for team fights.

Also, with the nerfs to Ardent, I feel like it's more of a situational item for Soraka (and most utility supports) now. It's great for attack speed based champions like Tristana and Kog, but not as good for Crit-based champions like MF or Jhin.

This way, you'd free up another situational spot for more AP. Talisman also gives Soraka more utility with the active speed boost which works well with Celerity. Use Talisman before Wish to get more AP aka more heal.

Anyways, great work!

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Heya, thanks for your comments.

At some point, I should expand this guide to include other playstyles. Right now, it focuses solely on my own playstyle as well as the items I build. I should discuss in detail why I don't buy locket, but in short it just isn't effective unless you have a large health pool. (i.e Ruby Sightstone and warmogs). By the numbers, buying an AP item like Athenes grants way more healing and is therefore suited to my playstyle.

Ardent was nerfed, but Soraka is still one of the best users of it. It gives stats she likes, from MS to AP to a unique passive she can keep up all the time. Even with champs that don't abuse it, it's still a solid choice because you can use it too! It's nice for stacking Athenes that much faster.

I don't like Talisman because I feel it is slot inefficient. I would rather have a rabadons or a zhonyas, these grant what I feel to be much more immediate benefits that are felt more strongly. You can live without the MS if you are confident in your positioning, and the extra MS from celerity is negligible. You get a lot more from your passive.

Thanks for the criticisms. Feel free to ask if you have more questions!

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I see. I'll have to play around with this build some more then! I've found that I'm more prone to being caught out (and needing to use my flash) while deep warding/just warding without Talisman because Soraka is generally so slow. Any tips on that?

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Warding is pretty dangerous for Soraka in general. It's a job that you should never do alone unless all 5 enemies are on the map and a good distance away from you. Generally if you want to do some deep warding, signal your jungler and they will (hopefully) follow you and keep you safe.