What's your stance on warmogs now that it only requires 1100 bonus health to be able to trigger the healing?

A few outdated things in the items section, Shurelya's active doesn't give bonus damage anymore and also Vigilant Wardstone no longer gives bonus MS nor extra stealth wards (sadly).
Asides from that still my favourite go-to Soraka guide!

For the "Full Build (Max heal power) why not replace the forbidden idol with a mikaels?
Forbidden idol only provides 10% heal/shield power while Mikael's gives 20%

By the way, in the runes section you wrote that cosmic insight will let us spam abilities more, since 10.23 cosmic insight doesn't give cdr/ability haste anymore and now it only really affects summs and active items sadly.

Is cosmic insight still the best choice after the free boots in the inspiration secondary tree?

So a Soraka Main here around 65-80% winrate Guardian is better than aery if the enemy has an assasin if no then and you know you are safe aery is good Barrier is an amazing rune on soraka even better with guardian giving you time to react to assasins (sometimes they still 1 shot you but still) Exhaust is better if you are afraid of the enemy team having a fed teamate that will 1 vs 9. Soraka has a huge poke and decent escape against anyone without no dashes since Q is a slow and if you throw E in a choke point and Q on the other choke point you 100% escape as a soraka u can most of the times solo kill a tank by just kiting it you need to shot call your team where to go and make sure they protect you with their lives. your W costs 0 hp most of the time since you ALWAYS hit spam your Q no matter what same in laning phase if your adc is low hp and you have w dont use it Just wait until you hit your Q and then use that W to give a bigger heal and give Ms and ofc save hp and technically mana since u heal more for same price. NOW the fun part as soraka When i am in low elo like plat I am infront not in the back line I am the one in the front i start fights and immidietly run away and kite I am the one to engage them since i know my team WILL NOT fight and will just let themselves die to poke or wait until an assasin can kill me as soraka Force the fights and make sure you win them. Now the items Imperial mandate is the best laning mythic for soraka Huge Giant Poke, And the MS if you build imperial mandate and staff of flowing water you are giving 40% ms to you and your adc each time they hit an enemy you hit with Q + it does 100 more dmg Sometimes the MS from staff of flowing water is better than attack speed and on hit dmg from censer

Now where i 100% disagree in your build is Redemption that item was really strong last season but this season its not even a 500hp heal at lvl 18 with a full build its just not worth it you can build many better items and visage is meh ? if they have full ap team and u want to heal yourself more and be tanky suure ? but its still meh just build an item that gives ap or something u need or zhonyas anything



How i max abilities at lvl 1 I pick Q lvl 2 E (W only if my adc has to recall bcs of low hp) lvl 3 W lvl 4 Q if i want poke since we cant win lane or we are hard winning, or W if i know we will get ganked or we are equal and need healing more than dmg then i always max W lvl 6 ofc R lvl 7 w if i remember correct at lvl 8 if u have only points in W then you have to put another point either in E or Q so i choose Q and at lvl 9 You have maxed W so at this point You have a soraka spike as i call it your W should have less than 1s cd or just 1s cd FORCE A FIGHT if u are equal or just a tiny bit behind if you are ahead on lane as soraka you can 99% of the time 2 vs 3 the enemy who cares about their jg you are lvl 9 just hit your Q and heal your adc use your E on the adc to zone the jg off or use the E to perma cc somebody rooted or if its a kat wait for her knife for her to jump on it then E or wait for ult to cancel it Soraka is a hard champion. Its an easy champion to understand hard champion to play correctly abilities are simple but so is your health you are easy to kill Khazix, Rengar these are your nightmares pretty much

also i disagree with you saying tristana is a counter actually you counter her if she jumps towards you just press E and Q on the spot she will land and she dies and ints Blitzcrank is not a threat with a good adc soraka counters all hook champs 50/50 if they hook you unless you have barrier and you are baiting its your fault you are dumb. If they hook your adc you win the trade so if you have a premade adc make him learn that he should let himself be hooked on purpose and always try to block hooks for you since u can out heal most enemy adcs

Have you considered removing dark seal from the items list as since 10.23 it no longer gives benefits to health pots and now solely gives AP and a minor ammount of health? I feel it's not worth the 350g and item slot just for 5 ap per assist (unless you wanna go and ks for the extra 5 ap and stack..) which means at 10 assists which takes a while (at least in my games) you get a mere 65 extra ap and like 40 hp.

On top of it being a pain to stack, as a Soraka I tend to get focused a lot in lane during fights which means it'll be hard to maintain the stacks on it as well and so I feel without any other benefit (i.e. the now removed bonus to pots) it's not worth to run anymore.

Add a warmog cuz this ***** dies faster than a fly.

Definitely my favourite build since the item changes, also taught me how strong W maxing is

I tried this build and got a S first try

Nice and clean guide, wanting to pick her up to improve my champion pool and this definitely helps! :D