Soraka

Playstyle Profile

Soraka is a protector — defends carries by neutralizing incoming threats

Teamfight Role

Backline Protector

Power Spike

Mid game

Split Threat

None

Backline Access

Low

Soraka's Strengths

• Keeps carries alive through burst — Soraka's peel makes hyper-carries nearly unkillable in teamfights

How to Play Soraka

Champion-specific pre-match tips

Gameplay tips on Summoner's Rift

Lane Phase

Cast Q to strike an enemy before using W to negate the health cost and transfer the healing buff to your ally.

Lane Phase

Target your Q directly under an enemy the moment they are locked into an auto-attack animation for a last hit.

Lane Phase

Hold E until an enemy gap closes to force an engage, then drop it directly beneath them to guarantee the silence and disrupt their combo.

Mid Game

Monitor allied health bars across the map and cast your ult only when a teammate drops below 40 percent health to maximize the bonus healing.

Mid Game

Place E covering narrow jungle chokepoints or incoming teleport locations to instantly silence and root arriving enemies.

Mid Game

Use your passive movement speed boost to quickly close the gap to low-health allies during rotations, then immediately retreat behind them before casting W.

Late Game

Remain entirely out of enemy vision when teams group for major objectives, stepping forward to heal only after the enemy team commits their primary engage tools.

Late Game

Alternate casting W and Q continuously during extended fights to sustain your health pool, prioritizing Q hits on frontline targets to fund your W costs.

Late Game

Drop E directly at your own feet or on your primary carry the exact moment an enemy diver commits to deny their follow-up burst damage.

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Gameplay tips in Arena

• Place E under committed divers, heal only when it will not expose you, and use Q movement to maintain spacing. R before the ally reaches an unhealable execute threshold.
• Build Moonstone Renewer, Redemption, Dawncore, and Eleisa's Miracle. Heal power and self-survival preserve repeated W casts.
• Prioritize First-Aid Kit, All For You, Circle of Death, and Holy Fire. Augments should turn every safe heal into partner uptime without sacrificing you.

Soraka Build

This might not be your familiar build. We look at ranked games after each item was bought. If the player or team gained ground in gold, we rate that item higher.

Core

• Moonstone Renewer
• Ionian Boots of Lucidity (Boots)
• Redemption

Situational

• Dawncore
• Ardent Censer
• Dream Maker
• Morellonomicon

Soraka Runes

The most popular rune page and summoner spells for Soraka in ranked games over the last 30 days.

Sorcery + Resolve · 50.5% WR · 10,829 games

• Summon Aery
• Manaflow Band
• Transcendence
• Scorch
• Revitalize
• Bone Plating
• Adaptive Force
• Adaptive Force
• Health Scaling

Summoner spells

Flash, Heal

Soraka Skill Order

The recommended skill order for Soraka from ranked games over the last 90 days: the first three skill points, then the order to max abilities.

1. lvl 1: Q
2. lvl 2: W
3. lvl 3: E
4. max: W
5. max: Q
6. max: E

How to Counter Soraka

Counter strategies and draft context

apply grievous wounds, dive past the frontline, or burst through their shields before they stack

• Struggles against multi-angle pressure — Soraka can't peel multiple threats at once
• All-in engage supports that outpressure in lane
• Champions with anti-heal in their kit or builds
• Assassins that delete carries before shields apply

Soraka's Weaknesses

Several dive threats at once overwhelm the backline, because Soraka can only peel one target.

Best Synergies with Soraka

Team synergies and draft context

Hyper-carry ADCs thrive behind Soraka's protection, and the longer fights last, the more value you get. Hyper-carry ADCs scale with your shields and heals. Bruisers and fighters become very hard to kill with your buffs. Late-game compositions benefit from your scaling support.

Draft Context

• Drafts only squishies — Soraka can peel, but there's nothing to absorb damage in the frontline

Learning Curve

Based on 1.2M+ matches across all ranked elos, showing how Soraka's win rate changes with mastery level

Soraka has a typical skill ceiling, but getting results takes patience. Expect lower win rates early while building the experience to unlock this champion's potential.

Skill Cap

Medium

Cost of Learning

High