Seriously great video, as a support main in plat playing on the Japanese server I’m not at the level where I can read everything yet so going into deep depth with the abilities and each rune is helping me improve my game now that I know what they do 😅 keep up the awesome vids
Amazing guide, thanks! You have a great voice for this sort of thing and I really appreciate the advice as I'm just getting into playing support (also your cat is so cute! I also have a tortie although she never sleeps in my lap despite my trying haha)
With the buff to spellthief's edge I'm not really having any mana problems, especially mid/late game where my health is more a factor then my mana. I run nimbus cloak instead and it's done a world of good in increasing my survivability.
If it works for you then definitely keep at it, but I have tried nimbus and nullifying and I just felt better with manaflow band every game personally!
I've been playing soraka for a while now (im d2) and I've been trying both guardian and aery, I don't know why but for some reason I feel that with guardian I can peel more than with aery's
Yeah Guardian felt really good most of this season, but the latest nerf made me really dislike it. I spoke to other supports and checked the stats across multiple websites and most of them agreed aery is better now, but guardian was better most of S10. It’s still viable but personally I’d suggest aery unless they revert the last guardian nerf
I thought unique passives stacked as long as they didnt have a name. The only time they dont stack is it you have 2 of the same item, so, 2 Redemptions for example But one of each would stack. This is why Lethality items used to stack cooldown passives, despite being nameless unique passives Edit: just checked this and can confirm myself to be correct
@@PixelPocket I look forward to it! I’m a low elo player so I’ve really learned a lot from your guides so far, especially with how to properly build Senna and which order to level up skills on Nami and Brand. I have another question - do you think you could make a video that very briefly goes over the strengths and weaknesses of each support? I think it would be really useful to Support mains and newbies trying to form their champion pool for Season 11, as well as to help players think about which supports are actually good in certain team compositions.
Correction though, you can heal your ally with ult while they're inside the Death Realm. Your allies can also be healed while you're inside the Death Realm. Love playing against Morde and Nocturne ults. I just wait a few seconds and press R. I've saved my teammates quite a lot with this trick.
Fair enough! I feel the same on many enchanters but I just love revitalise for laning with Soraka. Cosmic insight is statistically stronger late game so if you like to play a passive lane style and scale it's perfectly viable!
@@PixelPocket lol that's what I go for late game scaling that's why I almost never take scorch or water walking cuz I love that gathering storm starts working at exactly 6 minutes and starts it's scaling every 6 minutes apparently
Hi, OTP soraka here, have you try Guardian + Domination (Taste of Blood + Ultimate hunter)? extra heal for lane phase and +15% CDR in ultimate, global heal often (also, easy to stack as assisted in kill counts) also, E to cut combos like the Q +E of Blitz or Tresh, cut ganking paths (unless a Lee sin), and of course, cancel enemy recall
I personally do not like guardian on her right now. I know many others still do but in soloqueue I much prefer aery as it allows for better team-wide peel. If you can trust your ADC guardian is viable but on soraka I personally still prefer aery as she can be very oppressive in lane due to the Q damage buffs and aery helps the poke. I also dislike ult hunter as I find it relatively useless. You don’t want to be playing around your ult and with 40% cdr you already have a low cooldpwn for the mid-late game. I prefer the 5% cdr of cosmic insight to help with standard heals. I’ve been doing a tonne of aery vs guardian testing on stream recently for support and the only enchanter supp I like guardian on right now is Lulu.
Do you think Soraka will still be good in season 11? I'm worried about all the extra antiheal personally, but I do think some of the new items will be good on her still.
I think there is some balance necessary. I really like the normal support items but I'm worried about the moonstone renewer mythic, I feel it is meant to be a grail replacement but it just doesn't 'feel' powerful (and grail is incredibly powerful). We will see when winrates etc are explored. I think overall they will be fine, if balance is attended to!
Pixel Pocket thanks for the reply, I’m a newer player trying to main Soraka to learn the game so I hope she’ll still be decent for solo queue, and it does seem like riot is pretty good about addressing balance concerns in a somewhat timely manner
The game is going to take a huge balance turn with the changes, so be prepared for that! Don't be disheartened if she isn't great on release, but I'm sure it will get addressed. This season has been balanced very well compared to previous ones!
What Champion do you want to see next on League 101?
Fiddle support
TARIC !
Sona
Taric, Braum, Galio...?
Loving these videos ! I would love to see Zyra !
Seriously great video, as a support main in plat playing on the Japanese server I’m not at the level where I can read everything yet so going into deep depth with the abilities and each rune is helping me improve my game now that I know what they do 😅 keep up the awesome vids
I'm really glad it could help and I'll definitely keep it up!
I used to play league years ago. So many of the abilities have changed! Soraka was one of my favorites and this helped me a ton.
I'm glad it could help! Welcome back :)
Amazing guide, thanks! You have a great voice for this sort of thing and I really appreciate the advice as I'm just getting into playing support (also your cat is so cute! I also have a tortie although she never sleeps in my lap despite my trying haha)
Love your in depth guide and explanation style! Please make more!
Thanks! I will!
So-RACK-uh? You mean so-ROCK-a
nice guide, ngl was vibing to that beat in the background haha
With the buff to spellthief's edge I'm not really having any mana problems, especially mid/late game where my health is more a factor then my mana. I run nimbus cloak instead and it's done a world of good in increasing my survivability.
If it works for you then definitely keep at it, but I have tried nimbus and nullifying and I just felt better with manaflow band every game personally!
Thanks for making this dude!
I love your content!
Thanks so much, I'm glad to make them!
I've been playing soraka for a while now (im d2) and I've been trying both guardian and aery, I don't know why but for some reason I feel that with guardian I can peel more than with aery's
Yeah Guardian felt really good most of this season, but the latest nerf made me really dislike it. I spoke to other supports and checked the stats across multiple websites and most of them agreed aery is better now, but guardian was better most of S10. It’s still viable but personally I’d suggest aery unless they revert the last guardian nerf
I thought unique passives stacked as long as they didnt have a name.
The only time they dont stack is it you have 2 of the same item, so, 2 Redemptions for example
But one of each would stack. This is why Lethality items used to stack cooldown passives, despite being nameless unique passives
Edit: just checked this and can confirm myself to be correct
You're right for sure. I let it slip through. It used to work differently and in my tiredness I got it mixed up. My bad.
Will you be making a guide for Soraka and Nami in Season 11? I really appreciated the new guides you made for Senna and Sona!!
Absolutely! Soraka is coming soon :)
@@PixelPocket I look forward to it! I’m a low elo player so I’ve really learned a lot from your guides so far, especially with how to properly build Senna and which order to level up skills on Nami and Brand. I have another question - do you think you could make a video that very briefly goes over the strengths and weaknesses of each support? I think it would be really useful to Support mains and newbies trying to form their champion pool for Season 11, as well as to help players think about which supports are actually good in certain team compositions.
Correction though, you can heal your ally with ult while they're inside the Death Realm. Your allies can also be healed while you're inside the Death Realm. Love playing against Morde and Nocturne ults. I just wait a few seconds and press R. I've saved my teammates quite a lot with this trick.
Unless it's been changed recently it does not work across realms: ruclips.net/video/o9Pcgp6n9Zg/видео.html (timestamp relevant)
@@PixelPocket Yeah, not sure when it got changed but it's been like this for a while now.
I know you usually use the revitalise thingy but I honestly prefer inspiration cause of boots biscuits or cosmic inisght
Fair enough! I feel the same on many enchanters but I just love revitalise for laning with Soraka. Cosmic insight is statistically stronger late game so if you like to play a passive lane style and scale it's perfectly viable!
@@PixelPocket lol that's what I go for late game scaling that's why I almost never take scorch or water walking cuz I love that gathering storm starts working at exactly 6 minutes and starts it's scaling every 6 minutes apparently
Hi, OTP soraka here, have you try Guardian + Domination (Taste of Blood + Ultimate hunter)? extra heal for lane phase and +15% CDR in ultimate, global heal often (also, easy to stack as assisted in kill counts)
also, E to cut combos like the Q +E of Blitz or Tresh, cut ganking paths (unless a Lee sin), and of course, cancel enemy recall
I personally do not like guardian on her right now. I know many others still do but in soloqueue I much prefer aery as it allows for better team-wide peel. If you can trust your ADC guardian is viable but on soraka I personally still prefer aery as she can be very oppressive in lane due to the Q damage buffs and aery helps the poke. I also dislike ult hunter as I find it relatively useless. You don’t want to be playing around your ult and with 40% cdr you already have a low cooldpwn for the mid-late game. I prefer the 5% cdr of cosmic insight to help with standard heals. I’ve been doing a tonne of aery vs guardian testing on stream recently for support and the only enchanter supp I like guardian on right now is Lulu.
Thank you for the tips!
No problem!
Nice ❣️
Do you think Soraka will still be good in season 11? I'm worried about all the extra antiheal personally, but I do think some of the new items will be good on her still.
I think there is some balance necessary. I really like the normal support items but I'm worried about the moonstone renewer mythic, I feel it is meant to be a grail replacement but it just doesn't 'feel' powerful (and grail is incredibly powerful). We will see when winrates etc are explored. I think overall they will be fine, if balance is attended to!
Pixel Pocket thanks for the reply, I’m a newer player trying to main Soraka to learn the game so I hope she’ll still be decent for solo queue, and it does seem like riot is pretty good about addressing balance concerns in a somewhat timely manner
The game is going to take a huge balance turn with the changes, so be prepared for that! Don't be disheartened if she isn't great on release, but I'm sure it will get addressed. This season has been balanced very well compared to previous ones!
nice vid i love it
Thanks!
@@PixelPocket your welcome