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Soraka
Patch 16.2.1
SupportDifficulty
Easy
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Survive the initial burst of a teamfight. By staying at the maximum range of your and consistently landing for Rejuvenation, you can out-heal the enemy's total damage output. Keep your carry alive and use to stop the enemy's most dangerous channel or dive.
Playstyle
Soraka is a backline combat medic who wins by out-sustaining the enemy. You aren't just a heal bot; you are a lane bully that uses to keep your health high while wearing down opponents. Your goal is to stay alive at all costs because as long as you breathe, your team doesn't die.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Unmatched sustained healing in extended teamfights with
- +Global map pressure and kill denial using
- + provides an instant silence that can shut down channeled ultimates immediately
- +High movement speed when moving toward low-health allies due to
Weaknesses
- -Extremely vulnerable to focus fire and assassins due to low base health
- - costs your own health, making you a target if you miss
- -Highly susceptible to Grevious Wounds (healing reduction) items
- -Lacks reliable hard crowd control for self-peel outside of the delayed root
Abilities
gives you massive movement speed when running toward allies below 40% health. Use this to reach skirmishes faster or to dodge skillshots by pathing toward a dying teammate. It essentially turns you into an ambulance.
This is your most important tool. Hit to get the Rejuvenation buff, which heals you over time. Crucially, if you have Rejuvenation, casting costs significantly less health. Always try to land before using .
Your primary heal. Do not spam this if you are low on health unless it's to save a carry. Because takes a percentage of your max health, you must land to stay healthy. Positioning is key; the range is short.
The only instant silence in the game. Use to stop Kat R, Samira R, or Fiddlesticks R instantly. The root only happens at the end of the duration, so use it on top of CC'd enemies to guarantee the snare.
A global heal that can turn any fight on the map. Watch the health bars of your teammates above the minimap. is best used when your allies are low to bait the enemy into overextending for a kill they won't get.
Teamfight Role
Backline Enabler & Disrupter
Stay behind your frontline. Your priority is keeping the highest damage dealer alive with . Use reactively to cancel enemy spells rather than proactively for damage. Use to reposition quickly between allies who need help.
If the enemy has a hyper-carry like Master Yi or Katarina, your job is to hold specifically to cancel their engagement, even if it means holding the spell for the entire fight.
Combos
Standard Lane Poke
→ Auto Attack
The slow from makes it easy to land a follow-up auto. This procs mana-regen items and keeps your health topped off through Rejuvenation.
The Efficiency Heal
(hit) →
Wait for the Rejuvenation buff to appear on your bar after hitting before pressing . This reduces the health cost of your heal significantly.
Self-Peel Zone
(under yourself) → (at your feet)
If an assassin jumps on you, drop directly on your feet to silence them, then to slow them. They must either leave the zone or get rooted.
Lockdown Chain
Ally CC → →
When an ally stuns an enemy, place underneath the target. This guarantees the silence and makes the root almost certain to land as the stun wears off.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | poke and self-sustain are oppressive for most melee supports to deal with early. |
| Level 3 | You have access to for saves and for disruption, making you a full utility threat. |
| Level 6 | lets you influence other lanes without leaving your ADC, providing a massive swing in cross-map skirmishes. |
| Level 11 | With rank 2 and higher ability haste, your global presence and sustain become much harder for the enemy to burst through. |
| Level 16 | Max rank and low cooldown make your team effectively immortal in front-to-back teamfights. |
Tips & Tricks
- • removes Grievous Wounds before healing, so don't be afraid to use it to cleanse the healing debuff during an all-in.
- •You can use to scout bushes safely; the silence zone provides vision of the area.
- •The travel time of is shorter the closer you cast it to yourself. Use this to hit divers more easily.
- •If you are being chased, path toward a low-health ally to gain the movement speed boost to escape.
- •Don't just watch your lane; keep an eye on the top lane health bars. A well-timed can win a 1v1 for your top laner and net you an assist.
- • cannot be self-cast. You must rely on and to keep yourself healthy.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Spamming without landing →You will quickly drop to 10% health, making you an easy target for any enemy with a gap-close.
- ✕Using for poke damage in lane→The cooldown is very long (around 20s early). Without it, you are defenseless against a jungle gank or an engage support.
- ✕Holding for too long→Allies die before the heal lands. It is better to use it early to keep them above 40% health than to lose them entirely.
- ✕Positioning in front of your ADC→Soraka is the priority target. If you get caught and die, your team loses all sustain and usually the fight.
- ✕Walking into melee range to heal a tank→You get hit by collateral AOE damage and CC, which is fatal for a champion that spends their own health to function.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached