Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stats shown here feature several influential Ashe against Soraka matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Ashe normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Soraka. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ashe usually wins when playing against Soraka, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Ashe makes a good counter for Soraka.
While Ashe does have a higher winrate than Soraka, when they face off with one another, Ashe also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ashe into Soraka.
Furthermore, Ashe has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Soraka matchups, Ashe is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ashe is a decent counter to Soraka. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ashe against Soraka.
To truly master Ashe to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe typically picks up much more CS as Soraka. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Ashe versus Soraka build include Runaan's Hurricane, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Ashe combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Soraka than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Ashe boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when countering Soraka with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Soraka as Ashe, Ashe players should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Ashe vs Soraka battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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