Soraka Build Guide : [S10] WormMaW's guide for Soraka :: League of Legends Strategy Builds

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Good!

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This guide is very useful and helped me get started with Soraka, now I'm revisiting it. I really hope you add bot lane matchups in this guide. Do you think Soraka is a safe blind pick and how do you continue helping your team after the enemy team buys healing reduction?

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I think as a soraka player(I havent played soraka in a time but) I see this guide very very useful, nice guide I think I have learned useful things with this guide, thank you for making the guide!

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I am glad that I was able to help you! :)

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I registered just to upvote you, this build is much better than the others by far and it's very beginner-friendly.

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Thank you very much <3

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Hey! Pretty good gide overall, everyone has his play styles and it’s good that you explain yours and give reasons to why you pick the runes/items.
However, I would like to point that your skill order is not optimal. It doesn’t matter if you play aggressive or passive or if you go coin (which I also think it’s better but now it changes in season 10). Starting W is just terrible:
- The heal you do at level 1 without your Q passive is about the same health that you loose for casting your W, making it a pointless ability at lvl 1.
- By starting W you give up all the lane pressure at lvl 1. Soraka’s Q is very strong at lvl 1, it helps you win trades with the damage and healing for yourself. Then you can play passive afterwards but at lvl 1 you have to use your Q and some auto to give yourself positive trades.
- Also (if the other bot lane are good) by starting W and having 0 pressure will 90% of the times allow them to have the lvl 2 power spike advantage. If you are versus Thresh, Leona, Nautilus, Blitz... this can be deathly. However by starting Q you can poke them while they try to execute minions, lvl 1 they don’t have kill potential, and you allow your adc to keep the pace for pushing to lvl2.
Apart from that, another good habit when you reach lvl 2 is to not level up any ability (W or E) until your are going to use it. This makes sure that you will have always the right ability needed.
-That you are poking them out and they don’t have kill pressure on you? Get E and poke more.
-That your jungled comes bot? Lvl up E if he has CC to chain CC your root.
-Your adc gets low? Get W to heal.
Most of the times is always better to get E lvl 2 unless your adc is already low. The silence is very good even defensively for preventing thresh own E after a hook, or silencing enemy jungler.

Then you can decide which play style you want with her for the rest of the game, but this first 2 levels will improve your Soraka lanning phase a lot.
Hope it helps, as I said rest of the guide is very good.

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Hey AP WormMaW Mid,
I know I already commented below on your guide some time ago but today I somehow found your guide again and noticed that you did talk about match ups you might not want to face. Scrolling up, I realized that your guide was missing a match up and counter section. So maybe you could add that one and fill me in with really amazing tips of how to play against your counters because that's pretty much what you'll have to face when playing Soraka. I usually resign from playing her when I notice that the enemy team got too much CC because that's what I've experienced as hardship for Soraka.
But it's a really great guide. (:

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Thank you. I plan on making remake of all my guides after season ends so hopefully when I get to it, I will find time to add that up. But generally if you face stuff like Thresh, Blitzcrank etc. you can't really do much. You need to just stand behind and peel for your carry, because if they catch ur adc, you might be able to save him, because you can just silence them, heal etc. Compared to it, whenever you get caught, you are just done. I know, that there are quite some Soraka players, that tend to play agressively, but usually I am pretty much just defensive Soraka player, who is trying to survive laning phase and carry off the teamfights where Soraka shines.

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Yeah I'm more like a defensive player as well. I'm usually picking up Ancient Coin like you because you usually really need to poke a lot to get its quest done and Coin gives you mana as well.
For me, Soraka is more like a Champion that wins teamfights from a fair distance to the enemies while healing all your allies. :) That's where she excels compared with other supports.

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Exactly. In addition - if you can position yourself well, then many players don't really know how to deal with you and from what I have seen, sometimes even on higher elo people refuse to buy healing reduction items.

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Why would they refuse that though? That makes no sense...

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Because of the way how brain of some people work. They have a feeling like higher numbers is basically better than anything else. Simply - 800g item, that doesn't give you that much AD compared to other items would simply slow you down way too much. Yes, for you it might not make sense, but for a lot of people it's reality. They simply don't realise it, same as many people don't realise many other things, that might be quite obvious for other people.

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Well I guess it's because I'm just so used to playing support and knowing what can counter them that it's natural for me to pick and do these things or items.
It's probably, as you've said, some kind of mind game. our experience usually says bigger things are better and cheaper in sum when compared to smaller things you'd believe are more expensive even though you're paying less because you're not gonna buy as many. Might sound a bit confusing. But imagine you'd see the offer of idk 6 apples for 3€/$. And then you can grab apples loosely for 2€/$ per kg. Assume they'd cost both the same but we don't know for sure. You'd actually only want 4 apples but because the offer got to be cheaper than grabbing your 4 apples, you'd probably for the 6 ones in one package. That's like getting more than you need and even though the loose apple might be healthier for the environment because they're not packed in plastic, you'd still decided against them.
Now looking back for the items, you'd just ignore the "cheaper" choices because it's more that you got but you're ignoring the side effects that can make all the difference.
Welp, sorry for that long comment. :d

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Yeah, could be that, but sometimes it might be a bit more complex. But whatever that is, it's reality. :D

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Hi AP WormMaW Mid,
I would like to know your view on taking a as a starting item instead of ... 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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Hello!
The main difference is the way how you obtain gold. Generally speaking - allows you to get extra gold more reliably and safely, because you are getting gold whenever you stand next to minion waves. To utilize you need to have your opponents nearby and as you might know, constantly trading might not alwaays be something that you want to do, but it depends on your playstyle. I generally like to play defensively so for me means bigger gold income, even though as far as I know, it works that way pretty much always, that you get more gold from (or it used to be that way). In terms of mana it's hard to compare, because the amount that you gain from coins depends on your current level of mana, so it might be more or possibly less. But you have to always keep in mind, that when it's less, it means that you don't really need it that much.

To sum it up - it depends on your decision and playstyle. What I tried to show here is, that there is possibility to actually play defensively instead of typical harass mode. In case that you have any other questions (or if I didn't answer something), feel free to ask!

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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 :)

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Hey there,
I like your guide. It's extraordinary because you build Rabandon's on Soraka which I probably never have dared before but I'll make sure to consider Zhonyia's Hourglass next time. I feel it's really useful.
I like to build Warmog's sometimes because of the sustain and you can ideally stand in the back of the teamfight and and keep healing everyone. x)
Really nice guide. :)

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Thank you for your feedback!
I used to love building Warmog's, because as you said, you will just become one huge healing machine + you are not that squishy, problem is that since Riot changed that passive effect from 2750 to 3k health, it's way more tricky to actually reach that point + games usually end way sooner than this, so in my opinion you can really build ultimate build around Warmog, but there is no reasonable path to it, that would include you being strong during early/mid game phase.

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Hey,
thank you for your reply!
Yes, I fully agree with you! When games take long, it's optimal for late game. I usually start building Warmog's as fourth or fifth item, depending how the game goes. It's true that it's harder now, but it's not impossible. Maybe you have to sell the boots in order buy another HP item but that's okay for me in late game because generally, Soraka's passive will allow you to help those in need. x)

Do you think it's worthwhile to go Inspiration - Stop watch (Perfect timing) - Cosmic Insight (more CDR and stuff)/Time Warp Tonic (potions heal longer & ms while under their effects)?

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To be honest, maybe. But probably not, since you just don't want to drop Revitalize from Resolve.

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Yeah, that's probably true. Was just an idea out of the blue. xd thanks

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hi, nice guide but i i prefer Spellthief's Edge , when the games start i think with this items before the 1st b , heal is stronger cuz of ap, keep your good work :)

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Thank you very much!

Yes, I know that most of people prefer it, even though I was never fan of that at all, but that mainly comes from my defensive playstyle + I like extra health regen to pull off more heals, so yeah!

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i will try this , i think with Athene's Unholy Grail , hp regen will be a lot :D

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perfect runes for soraka never out of mana, ty.

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Looks pretty solid, though I'm surprised at the complete absence of . I can understand if you prefer to get first. Surely there's a place for the item even if you don't pick it up every game, no?

I also don't see anywhere though admittedly that's a less reliable item in solo queue environments.

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Hello, thank you for your feedback!
To explain it, let's pick it up this way - what I tried to point out here is my personal most prefered build, instead of confusing people with possibilities, that aren't most likey that good. From my experience, if you go instead of , you will end up being way too squishy with way less self-sustain, because many times you just want to use that after you heal up a lot of damage with and you want to heal yourself.

Another thing - you are right that is quite nice item, yet it's redundant with . I have looked on that and Mobafire doesn't way it in tooltip - but you might check in client - Item set tool - that passive part of states, that except for giving you extra AP depending on mana regen, it disables "Harmony" on your other items - and yes, Harmony is on same as . You might argue, that it's worthy to still get in certain situations, but from my experience, the passive effect of , that got recently buffed is just too much extra healing, because even if you don't have so much AP, it drastically increases your healing potential.

I might actually mention , even though for me I never ever build it on . Even though it would be good item, if it fits into build, but imho, when you get first, you want as a followup with warding item. After you already need , otherwise you get oneshotted too many times, especially in current meta. And then the last item doesn't usually matter, but if it would, just gives you most of stats in that point. The only downside is, that it's quite expensive.

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Thanks for the explanation. I think I'm on board with the idea for your main build, but you could still consider adding and as alternative options to use situationally. I guess it depends how much importance you place on . Personally it doesn't seem essential to me (leaving you with the option to buy one of the other items) but if you think it's always the best choice then that's fine, up to you.

Also I fixed up the tooltips for , and , thanks for the heads-up.

Good luck with your guide!

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Thank you!
Btw I have already added them into items section, even though they are not being listed between items in build on top, where I want to keep my main build, but I still gave them my commentary, that technically it's possible to play them, even though I wouldn't recommend it personally. And yes, you can definitelly drop that item, it's just that from my own experience, it's healing is just way too valuable to be dropped, but as I usually say - we all have different playstyle and tastes, so if anyone wants to do it, go ahead.

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Sounds good, thanks WormMaW.

[S10] WormMaW's guide for Soraka

[S10] WormMaW's guide for Soraka

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