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 provided here show some strategic Viego against Soraka counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. As an example, Viego’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viego may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Viego normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their matchup does. Typically, they takes more damage than Soraka. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Viego usually wins when taking on Soraka, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Viego makes a good counter to Soraka.
While Viego does have a higher win rate compared to Soraka, when on opposite teams, Viego also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Viego into Soraka.
Moreover, Viego also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Viego vs Soraka matchups, Viego is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Viego is a decent counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Viego against Soraka.
To learn all of the intricacies of Viego in order to counter Soraka during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viego on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Soraka. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Viego versus Soraka build consist of Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and Kraken Slayer. When Viego incorporated at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better vs Soraka than with many other typical builds. In fact, Viego had an average winrate of 51.4% when countering Soraka with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Soraka as Viego, Viego players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Viego vs Soraka matchups, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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