Just fought one of the best Soraka players I have ever seen. He/she was playing mid, I was like, what? But she owned me pretty bad. I was playing Cassiopeia. Im glad I had a good team, so I managed to hold and top lane won so they came down to help. It was super close, but we managed to win. Very surprising. People started to blame me, but no one was able to kill her. She was very tanky and fast as hell. She kept healing herself so it was like I did no dmg at all.
soraka mid can be very annoying. anyone with lots of health sustain is very annoying mid, specially because they're usually very good pushers, so they basically force you to choose between running out of mana or health.
get a morellos and burst her down or something. soraka can't do much against a gank, just get all your hard cc on her and blow her up :/
I ended up being the first pick in that ranked game I just posted. I did the bans fine and then picked Janna first. One guy on our team laughed at me for picking a support first, then another guy said it was smart to pick either support or an adc first.
Just looking for your opinions on it..
with a few exceptions (like cait vs vayne or something) adcs don't really counter each other as other roles do, so usually adc is fine.
support is kinda different, if you first pick sona or lulu you'll leave yourself open to them picking someone super aggresive like leona or alistar. or if they pick leona or alistar like that you can just run taric or soraka and outsustain their combos (which is an awesome and very annoying way to win lane really) or go janna for super peel.
janna is super safe though, she doesn't have any counters and she's awesome, so she's ok. first picking sona or ali is more of a gamble, specially someone like ali, but it's still doable.
you might also want to first pick lulu or sona or thresh or blitz to take them away from the enemy team.
basically adcs and supports (and to a degree junglers, though not all) are usually the safest picks to do if you don't want to be countered, so it's fine. with tops and mids, there's so many to choose from and so many that hard counter each other that it's usually nicer not to go blind, that's all.
