Soraka Support Wild Rift overview and best build snapshot
Best Build
Quick snapshot of the default setup for this guide.
Items
Items
Summoner Spells
Spell 1
Flash
Spell 2
Heal
How to play
Keep healing from a safe position Use your 2nd ability to heal teammates while staying behind them. Hit enemies with your 1st ability when safe to recover some of your own health.
Use silence where an enemy commits Your 3rd ability places a silence zone that stops enemies casting spells. Put it under someone diving your team or channeling an ability.
Watch allies across the map Use your ultimate before a low-health teammate takes the next hit.
Guide author
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Strengths
- Unmatched sustain that keeps a carry and a lane standing through poke and trades the enemy duo cannot match.
- A global heal that reaches fights anywhere on the map, so her impact is never limited to her own lane.
- Equinox (3rd) gives her real disengage, silencing an engage and rooting divers who stay in the zone.
Weaknesses
- Immobile and squishy with nothing to save herself, so any hook or hard engage that reaches her kills her.
- Her healing is gated by mana and cooldowns, so careless sustain leaves her with nothing available when the collapse comes.
- No engage and no burst, so she cannot punish a lane or force a kill on her own terms.
Soraka Support Wild Rift best build, items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order
ITEM BUILD
Best Wild Rift build for Soraka Support, including items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order.
STARTING ITEM
Starcall (1st) earns support gold from ranged champion poke without taking the carry's minions. Hitting a champion also returns Rejuvenation to heal Soraka and reduces Astral Infusion's (2nd) remaining cooldown by two seconds.
BOOTS
Ability haste, since her value is how often her heal and her zone are available.
CORE BUILD
Starcall (1st) completes the quest from range, and the upgrade's offensive stats strengthen Soraka's poke and self-healing. In the current Wild Rift kit, Rejuvenation stays on Soraka rather than being passed through Astral Infusion (2nd).
Astral Infusion (2nd) can spread 30% of healing or 35% of shielding to another nearby ally. If nobody else qualifies, the original target receives the extra protection.
Soraka's low-cooldown heal keeps Ardent Censer active on the carry she is sustaining, adding attack speed and on-hit damage throughout the extended fight.
Healing an ally gives her ability haste and ability power, which compounds on a champion whose heal scales with both.
Build this when the enemy has a hook or point-and-click stun, since she is the squishiest champion on the map.
SITUATIONAL ITEMS
Build this for the divers who get through Starcall (1st) sustain and Equinox (3rd), since she has no dash and can still be burst down before her healing matters. Buy Seeker's Armguard early for the armor and ability power.
A cleanse next to her heal, so she can answer the lockdown that would kill the carry she is topping up.
Boot swap against heavy physical damage, when surviving the enemy duo matters more than heal frequency.
RUNES
KEYSTONE
Aery follows her heal as well as her Q (1st), so it pays out on both halves of what she does.
PRIMARY
Her Q (1st) and E (3rd) can hit enemy champions, healing her and the lowest-Health allied champion nearby when the rune is ready.
She is the primary target of every dive, and this buys her the time to heal through it.
Her entire contribution is healing, so a flat increase to it is the most direct upgrade she can take.
SECONDARY
Move speed after a summoner spell helps the least mobile champion in the game reposition.
SITUATIONAL RUNES
Take this over Revitalize when crowd control is a bigger threat than stronger heals and shields. Its tenacity shortens most disables and grants temporary defenses while immobilized. The shorter disable lets Soraka cast Equinox (3rd), Wish, or another heal before the focused ally falls.
Take this when your planned items cover Soraka's mana needs and ability haste is more valuable than extra mana.
Take this when both teams have champions likely to create fights across the map. Wish (Ult) heals Soraka and every allied champion, with 150% healing on targets already below 35% maximum health.
Take this over Nimbus Cloak against sustained damage when safe positioning lets Soraka keep casting. Shorter Starcall (1st), Astral Infusion (2nd), and Equinox (3rd) cooldowns help her repeat healing and protect against the next enemy approach.
SUMMONER SPELLS
MAIN SPELLS
Flash
Must take. She is the softest champion in the lane with no escape, so Flash is what she keeps for the dive aimed at her.
Heal
Her own healing is gated by mana and cooldowns, and this is one more save that also speeds up the carry she is trying to pull out of a collapse.
SKILL ORDER
Skill Priority Order
- 12nd Ability
W - 21st Ability
Q - 33rd Ability
E
Soraka Support Wild Rift matchups and counters
Wild Rift matchup guide for Soraka Support, covering favorable lanes and difficult counters to prepare for in ranked, plus the duo partners that pair best with this pick.
Good Matchups
These champions are favorable matchups for this pick in Wild Rift. You have advantages against them and can play more aggressively.
Braum
He brings poke and a shield but no real kill pressure on you, so the lane turns into a grind your sustain wins while his side runs out of patience and mana.
Milio
A disengage mirror that becomes a patience contest: his shields and cleanse blunt your harass, but nothing in his kit can punch through your sustain, and you out-poke him with Starcall (1st).
Janna
Nobody out-sustains you in pure attrition. Her disengage saves her from ganks, not from healing that never runs out, so the long game belongs to you.
Morgana
Black Shield (3rd) can prevent Equinox's (3rd) silence and delayed root while it holds, and Dark Binding (1st) threatens Soraka's immobile positioning. Place Equinox (3rd) after the shield is broken or on Morgana before she begins a new cast; silence does not erase projectiles or spells already released.
Soraka Counters
These champions counter this pick in Wild Rift and can be difficult matchups. Learn how to play against them or consider banning them.
Leona
Leona's targeted stun opens a chain that lands on the immobile healer first, and you cannot heal through a full lockdown combo onto your own face.
Nautilus
His hook drags you out of position and his kit chains crowd control long enough that no amount of healing matters once you are caught.
Pyke
He is built to make your healing irrelevant: his ultimate executes anyone left under its health threshold, his whole kit hunts squishy backline supports, and a qualifying champion death inside its X grants a recast.
Rell
Her engage locks you down hard and arrives whether you are ready or not, so your sustain ends up answering a fight that already ended once she binds you.
Blitzcrank
A single grab removes you from the fight entirely, and an immobile healer is the easiest hook target in the lane, so one landed hook erases your whole sustain advantage.
Thresh
You are his prime hook target: immobile, squishy, and worth the whole lane when a hook lands. Flay (3rd) does not interrupt the instant cast of Astral Infusion (2nd), but Thresh's chained crowd control can stop you from reaching or repeatedly healing the ally he catches, while his lantern rescues his own partner.
Synergies
The Dragon lane is a 2v2, so the carry you queue with matters as much as the matchup. These carries make the most of what this support provides.
Caitlyn
Her traps and net keep enemies off both of you, and your heals turn her poke-siege lane into one that never has to back down. Range plus sustain is a slow strangle.
Kog'Maw
You keep the artillery alive: Astral Infusion (2nd) keeps his uptime going without costing you health, and your silence zone breaks the dive before it reaches him.
Tristana
Her all-in resets pair with your heals: she jumps in knowing Astral Infusion (2nd) covers the trade, and Equinox (3rd) silences the counter-engage her dive invites.
Soraka Support Wild Rift game strategy and teamfighting guide
Wild Rift game strategy for Soraka Support, from early lane control through mid and late game map play to final teamfights.