League of Legends Champion Guide: Soraka, the Starchild

Welcome to a League of Legends champion guide to Soraka, the Starchild. Soraka is a support who aids allies throughout the game but more specifically keeping her ADC alive. Soraka is almost always played in the bottom lane. As a support her job is the help allies stay alive and to help them get kills so that they become more powerful and dominate the enemy. If you are the kind of summoner who wishes to deal a lot of damage and dual with enemies, the support role may not necessarily be right for you.

Champion Strengths

·         Best healing champion in game

·         Great sustain

·         Global ultimate

·         Long silence ability

Champion Weaknesses

·         Cannot heal herself (only with ultimate)

·         Very easily killed if focused

·         Not always best pick into some team compositions

·         Long cooldowns

Champion Abilities

Passive – Salvation: Soraka will run faster towards enemies with low health. Low health targets will have an icon appear above them to indicate Soraka’s passive is in effect.

Q – Starcall: Soraka summons a star to fall at a targeted location. Any enemies in the area will take damage and are slowed.

W – Astral Infusion: Soraka uses her own health as a resource to heal a friendly target. Soraka cannot use this ability if she is below a certain percentage of health. When an enemy is hit by Soraka’s starcall ability she is healed per champion hit by starcall.

E – Equinox: Soraka creates a zone at a targeted location silencing and damaging all enemies who step inside. After a brief period the zone will deactivate, rooting and damaging all enemies left in the zone.

R – Wish: Soraka heals all allies including herself. This ultimate is global and will heal any ally anywhere so long as they are alive.  Any champion below 40% health gets a bonus 50% healing from this ability.

As Soraka the best ability to max first is W. Healing targets is her specialty so maxing this ability is crucial to her kit. Next is her Q to regenerate health by landing starcalls. Lastly is Soraka’s E ability. Her ultimate should be upgraded whenever possible.

Champion Runes and Masteries

Summoner Spells

Flash should be taken to ensure escapes. Take exhaust to lower the enemy ADC damage while in lane to better assist your allies while crippling your enemies. 

Champion Build

Conclusion

Soraka is a great support champion for new players to League of Legends to pick up and use. She brings great sustain to the game but has trouble finding the right team composition to be made extremely useful. If you enjoyed this guide remember to like share and comment. Check out our Facebook, twitter, and Instagram too!