League of Legends General Discussion Thread

[Enoch]

Did you always use infuse on yourself? With the reduction in cooldown if you were using half of the infuses to give mana to your laning partner then it gives exactly the same amount of mana out. If you were giving more mana to your laning partner then it is a straight buff to the amount of mana generated. Also you can keep a target silenced for a larger proportion of time with it. If you maxed cdr then you would have a 2.5 second silence on a 6 second cool down now.

Soraka is still 90% a defensive character. She still has the largest heals in the game. She is still the only character that can heal a whole team any where on the map. She is still the best champion at mitigating damage delivered to a single target (except for Kayle I guess).

I can see this is quite an emotive subject for some people here but just looking at one aspect of the changes is no good. I can't play tonight but I will take her for a spin after Eu patches and give a trip report.

Edit: What Tyrmith said, people should see how new Soraka handles in real games.

[Tyrmith]

Edit: never mind, the links aren't working for some reason.

[sunrise089]

@Enoch - How is the E buffed in mana terms? Did the base amount of mana go up?

[Sir Bruce]

@Enoch - How is the E buffed in mana terms? Did the base amount of mana go up?

I think he's talking about the fact that mana/5 is way up if you just use it on your lane partner. 15 to 10 seconds is a huge gain. At level 1 with no AP and ignoring CDR the mana per minute went from 100 to 150 (to both champs!). It is definitely a nerf to self-cast though. In my experience, most Soraka's are using E to help their ally and nuke not self-cast, which makes it seem like a buff to E. Especially with a higher AP ratio.

[spellman]

In reference to a few pages ago: Here's a list of the major team players!

http://www.riotgames.com/company/team

It's... gotten quite long. And I personally know 2 (maybe 3) employees. But I can only find 1 of them on that list.

[Jowy]

From TSM The Rain Man on Soraka:

Hp buff...hmm ok I guess I could see it. Starcall damage reduced but AP ratios increased will end up being a nerf in dps, but the shred increase will help in teamfights. The biggest thing here is that her heal is now double the cooldown. However, the base heal is being buffed and the armor is being IMMENSLY buffed, and the AP ratio is being cut in half. Soraka does not end up getting AP anyways as is, and she prioritizes items with gold/10 stats on them along with wards and oracles. I think that these nerfs will make people end up prioritizing items like Frozen heart and Morello's evil tomb even more so, and CDR will be core now in order to pump out more heals, not bigger heals.
Overall, I cannot see this nerf destroying soraka like many people think, and I think she will become even more powerful than Sona and Taric at the role of healer, while Taric offers more offensive utility with his stun.

Also,

I see the humor, but if they're dodging before you lock in they're idiots and if you're actually locking that in you're not exactly following the summoner's code.

Using Twitch is against the rules now?

[ssmagus]

That new quick ignore button is useful

[Jowy]

Well the patch is here. Took two hours to update! Probably mostly cause of Dominion. Being an ex WoW player I don't really mind two hours. Took a stroll through the forums while waiting, it seems that alot of people find the new Soraka way more fun and still powerful.

[Deceptus]

So I heard Sullla has never made a cast for an Amumu game.


I still can't believe we did it. It was a 4v5, with Tristana acting like a toddler. And it was ranked, too, so the perspective of losing ELO for free ignited our hearts.

And then the seemingly clueless player turned out to be a troll as seen on the screenshot. You can't play like *this* for serious. She had Ghost/CV too.

[Dantski]

Wow... how do you manage 2 assists when the team gets 50 kills?

Looks like your duo lane got crushed but their duo was unable to use their lane dominance once teamfights started. I might question how much armor you got this game compared to MR considering the other team's setup but well played.