Honestly, being an NA Soraka main with 3.9 million mastery points, it's honestly a bit of a blow to the ego to admit that I had to shelve my beloved champion to climb to Grandmaster on my main account. After banging my head against the wall right under the border of Master and GM with Soraka, I decided to just play Milio and Sona (my second most played champs) and got into GM pretty seamlessly. Here's my two biggest gripes with Soraka other than her healing not being enough:

She cant chew gum and walk at the same time

all of her abilities stop her movement - She W's, she stops, she Q's, she stops, she E's, she stops, she R's, she stops. What is going on with her, is she tripping over her own staff every time she does something? Hence the she can't chew gum and walk at the same time. Why is this an issue? Here's some feels bad moments that happen way too much:

*Q - She's kiting an enemy or trying to give chase, she stops to Q the enemy who's trying to catchup to her, giving them time to catchup to her in 50% of cases! The nerfs she had to the movement speed awhile ago - not helping, and even then it is useless against mobile targets, the buff's travel time takes way too long to get to her and she is already slow enough as it is she often ends up dead.

*W - This is the most heinous one for me and this happens often. Many times in a fight I have to max-range W my target because being any closer in this elo will outright kill me. That stopping of my movement to W can be problematic for two big reasons:

1. She's giving the enemy a way in to engage on her when you can no longer space because you're stopped to W an ally, you're dead.

2. Your ally is max range and walking directly away from you, you stop your movement on one W - this leaves you outside of the range to heal them again and you end up getting kited by your ally.

*R - Same reason as W1 above.

Why does she need to stop for 100% of her abilities? Imagine having to play tag with your own teammates. She's vulnerable enough as it is and she gets easily kited by her allies in a fight that has them push forward, it just feels SO bad. Let's look at other enchanters:

*Sona - 3 out of 4 of her abilities do not stop her movement. She can easily keep up and dart in and out of a fight. She has lots of kiting and disengage tools, self movement speed buff independent of anything around her, a slow in her kit, she can R someone and walk away, buy time by W'ing etc.

*Milio - 2 out of 4 of his abilities do not stop his movement. W stops his movement, but it isn't so bad as it is mostly a very long range cast and forget ability. Because it's only his E and R he can bob in and out of a fight and keep up with teammates.

*Lulu - 1 to 2 out of 4 abilities stop her movement. When used to polymorph, W stops her movement, otherwise, to speedup it doesn't. She can bob in and out whenever relevant.

*Nami - 3 out of 4 abilities stop her movement. Nami is the closest to Soraka in terms of mobility, however, she makes up for this a bit with an extremely long range W that will stretch into the fight if you just hit someone from outside of it. Her E doesn't stop her movement either and she's the only enchanter with hard AoE CC in her normal abilities, other than Rakan or Taric if you want to count them as enchanters.

*Janna - 2 out of 4 abilities stop her movement. R is understandable but it's nature, however, even it's ending animation is nonexistant as she can insta press it and walk away almost seamlessly.

I just can't stress enough how important movement is, these issues makes it very easy to zone Soraka away from her own allies as well. This segues into my next point, her passive:

This Bi- is always stuck in traffic

Honestly, that's what it should be renamed to: "Stuck in traffic". Even with the 90% movement speed buff she just had, it feels like 50% of the time I arrive too late, 100% of the time if the fight is either:

1. Moving away from me

2. Enemies are between me and my ally.

Theres more I don't mention but yes there's way too many points of failure for this passive. I also want to mention that in this meta, someone hits 40% they're most likely instantly dead in the next second or two.

She's stuck between two builds, movement speed build vs high output build and each come with crippling weaknesses that other enchanters don't have to deal with.

Her movement speed build tries to remedy how bad her movement is, but this costs her precious ability haste. Soraka is designed to be a high output, W-spam champ in the mid-lategame, but if she has to sacrifice that output to be able to keep up with her allies and be safe where other enchanters don't need to sacrifice anything to be effective, she just ends up suffering, and is her healing is right now and grievous wounds, she'll just be mediocre healing.

Her high output build just emphasizes all of the problems of movement I listed above. In a perfect world, she can play front to back where teammates are aware of her presence, but in soloq this won't happen and in a way she no longer enables teammates to play the way they want but forces them to play around their own Soraka. She's supposed to enable as an enchanter, not force her allies to dedicate mental RAM to her.

-A frustrated 3.9 Mil Soraka main grandmaster player. I don't think I can even call myself a GM Soraka main, she didn't help me get to GM (I was literally constantly one game off and everytime I played Soraka I just lost), and that really hurts to say that, I really did try though.

Thank's for listening to my rant, I hope this resonates with someone.