How to beat Soraka

Common role: Support

A healing enchanter who keeps her team topped up and globally saves allies.

What makes Soraka dangerous

Soraka heals her allies at the cost of her own health, silences and roots with her E, and her global ultimate heals the entire team from anywhere — clutch-saving allies across the map. She turns drawn-out fights and sieges in her team's favor with relentless sustain.

How to play against Soraka

• 1Buy Grievous Wounds — anti-heal is the direct counter to her sustain. It cuts her heals and turns her value down hard.
• 2She pays health to heal — poke her down and she can't sustain the team safely. Focus and dive her; she's very squishy.
• 3Dodge her E (a delayed root/silence) — without it she has no lockdown and can't stop your engage.
• 4Force quick kills — her strength is long fights. Burst a target before her heals and ult can respond.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓Grievous Wounds hard-counters her healing.
• ✓Extremely squishy — dies fast to dives and burst.
• ✓Pays her own HP to heal — punished by poke.
• ✓E is a dodgeable delayed skillshot.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Soraka's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  Salvation

  Soraka runs faster towards nearby low health allies.

  Strong: relentless healing keeps her team topped up through fights. Weak: Grievous Wounds directly guts her value — buy anti-heal.

• Q
  Starcall

  A star falls from the sky at the target location dealing magic damage and slowing enemies. If an enemy champion is hit by Starcall, Soraka recovers Health.

• W
  Astral Infusion

  Soraka sacrifices a portion of her own health to heal another friendly champion.

• E
  Equinox

  Creates a zone at a location that silences all enemies inside. When the zone expires, all enemies still inside are rooted.

  Strong: a delayed root and silence to lock down or peel. Weak: dodge it and she has no other lockdown.

• R
  Wish

  Soraka fills her allies with hope, instantly restoring health to herself and all allied champions.

  Strong: a global heal that clutch-saves allies anywhere on the map. Weak: force fast kills — burst a target before her ult can respond.

Itemization

Soraka is a healing enchanter. Grievous Wounds is the answer — anti-heal guts her value. Dive and burst her (she's very squishy), dodge her E, and force fast kills before her sustain matters.

This guide covers Soraka's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.