Lissandra vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Lissandra
based on 1,111 Lissandra vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Soraka
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
Advice to Win Against Soraka
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.
Lissandra vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Lissandra in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several strategic Lissandra against Soraka matchup stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Soraka’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Lissandra usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Soraka. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lissandra and Soraka
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Soraka?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when trying to fight Soraka, with a 47.0% win rate. Therefore, Lissandra makes a bad counter for Soraka.
While Lissandra does have a lower winrate than Soraka, when facing one another, Lissandra also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lissandra into Soraka.
Additionally, Lissandra also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Lissandra vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Lissandra is a garbage counter to Soraka. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Lissandra against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lissandra in order to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra typically racks up much more CS as Soraka. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lissandra versus Soraka build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Soraka than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 47.0% battling Soraka with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Soraka as Lissandra, Lissandra players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Lissandra vs Soraka clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Soraka as Lissandra are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.