Soraka
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Good (7/10)
High Investment Required
Epic Relics
Paid Relics
Soraka is a highly effective scaling champion at maximum investment, but her reliance on raw stats over unique mechanics leaves her gameplay feeling somewhat linear. She requires significant constellation upgrades and premium relics to overcome early-game fragility.
Self-Damage Scaling
Forces self-damage on allied units upon being played, immediately enabling Soraka's healing synergies.
Converts the high health of her followers into formidable attack power while protecting them from self-damage.
Accelerates the game plan by providing an additional starting mana gem, allowing for earlier board presence and faster scaling.
Strategy
This build creates a self-sustaining engine that damages allies on play, allowing Soraka to immediately heal them and trigger her stat-scaling star powers. Strength of Stone ensures her low-attack, high-health units become massive threats, while Starforged Gauntlets provides the crucial early mana needed to establish a board presence before aggressive opponents can overwhelm her.
Rapid Rally Engine
Provides consistent rallies and spellshield whenever Soraka is healed while the attack token is absent.
Grants Regeneration, Overwhelm, and Challenger once the Empowered threshold is reached, ensuring massive stat growth.
Doubles Soraka's stats, instantly activating the Empowered threshold of Chosen by the Stars.
Strategy
This setup focuses on rapid stat escalation and multiple attack phases. Hymn of Valor provides a massive burst of stats, instantly bringing Soraka online. The healing from Regeneration and other sources triggers the Celestial Staff, generating extra attack tokens to dominate the combat phase and close out the game quickly.
Accessible Brawler
Provides steady stat growth whenever Soraka survives damage during combat.
Ensures a crucial rally upon leveling up, allowing for a decisive finishing blow.- Offers a massive burst of stats to ensure Soraka can survive combat and scale effectively.
Strategy
Utilizing only rare relics, this build relies on surviving combat to scale. The Berserker's Buckle turns enemy attacks into a scaling advantage, while Hymn of Valor ensures Soraka has the bulk to survive. Crownguard Inheritance capitalizes on her easily controllable level-up condition to generate a surprise attack phase.
Other Relic Options
Excellent for duplicating her healing spells in longer encounters.
Provides Challenger to the entire board, forcing favorable trades to ensure units take non-lethal damage for healing triggers.
A strong alternative for granting Overwhelm and a slight stat boost to her board.
Disciple of Shadows is actively detrimental to Soraka. The initial damage will often destroy her low-health early units before they can be healed, completely shutting down her scaling engine.
Constellation
Players disagree about Soraka's overall design. Some consider her straightforward, stat-scaling playstyle to be highly effective and resilient in difficult encounters. While others find it uninspired, noting the conspicuous absence of the Star Spring landmark as a primary win condition.
Flourish I
When you heal a damaged ally, grant it +1|+1.
The Stars Answer
+1 Starting Mana. Round Start: Create an Astral Diffusion in hand or reduce its cost by 2 if you already have one.
Flourish II
When you heal a damaged ally, grant it +1|+1 for each point of healing (up to a max of +3|+3).Review
The stat gain is capped per healing effect, which can make scaling feel sluggish in the early game against aggressive opponents.
Duelist
When you summon an ally, give it Challenger this round.Review
Granting Challenger for a single round is excellent for picking off specific threats, though it can be awkward to utilize effectively if Soraka is played on a defensive turn.
Manaflow
Game Start: Get a mana gem.Review
The additional starting mana gem is a massive power spike, significantly smoothing out her early curve and allowing her to establish a board presence before being overwhelmed.
Flourish III
When you heal a damaged ally, grant it +1|+1 for each point of healing (up to a max of +3|+3). After every 6 points of healing, create a 0 cost Fleeting Falling Comet in hand.Review
This upgrade drastically transforms her power level. By uncapping the stat gains from healing and generating zero-cost, burst-speed removal spells, she gains immense control and scaling potential, making her highly capable against the most difficult encounters.
Gameplay Tips
- Activating Healing Synergies
To maximize Soraka's scaling, units must take non-lethal damage. Utilize Challenger or strategic blocking to ensure allies survive combat, allowing healing spells and abilities to trigger her star powers.
- Leveraging Astral Diffusion
The burst-speed stun provided by her kit is a premium control tool. Use it to neutralize large threats before they strike, or to bypass formidable blockers during an offensive push.
- Understanding Rally Mechanics
When using her signature relic, remember that Regeneration effects resolve at the end of the round after the attack token is lost, meaning they will not grant a usable rally. Rely on direct healing spells or abilities during the action phase to generate extra attacks.
- Navigating Early Vulnerability
Soraka's early-game units possess low base health, making them susceptible to removal and aggressive wide boards. Prioritize establishing a stable board state and avoid unnecessary sacrifices until her healing engine is fully online.