Why is Soraka mid a thing right now?

lot of harass with starcall spam, and insane sustain. Also does really well in the farm heavy meta right now

Her new passive makes her extremely good without any AP at all. So if you're REALLY tanky, you can tank, and heal yourself for high amounts. And your Starcall will start to hurt when their MR hits 0 or lower. All in all, she's a mid laner that can afford to build full on tank, because of how Starcall and her passive works.

She has infinite poke with low/no mana costs, insane wave clear, great map presence, unparalleled sustain, she can heal through jungle ganks, and shut down most combos with her silence.
Also, her damage is very high if you hit 3+ starfalls

I feel like she is just a anti feed lane. She wont lose lane and can ony bring good to the team with heals and ok damage.

Her heals are pretty strong with summoner heal because you can pretty much cleanse the ignite debuff, she can push really hard which makes her relatively safe (especially in competetive play where the jungler will go to the bot lane to fast push in most games) and her damage is pretty ok actually, no burst but consistent damage output.

Meta is being sustained in teamfight+dealing dmg, soraka gives that to her team^^

To be honest I don't what to say except this : press Q win lane .. press R win map skill level needed under 9000... make your enemies rage and do shit cause they are pissed off.... welcome to the raka world ! Got a friend that made it from plat V to plat II with only raka and he is still going up...

she is good because even if you happen to get crushed in lane and lose out on cs, you are still hella useful in teamfights, you can avoid fights pretty well by starcall spam lane and leaving and when the other midlaner decides to roam to kill top/bot you are able to get the wave to tower extremely fast.

OP fucking heal and cc, she also has pretty good sustain and peel. I think the way the meta is heading it is the rise of the midlane support champions.

She is a great lane bully and synergies well with the squishier hard carry junglers in the current meta. + The heal summoner buff gave her a good bit of mobility and the ability to just walk away from ganks with 3 heals.

She can permapush her lane from level 1 which forces the enemy midlaner to farm under turret and stay in lane while Soraka can roam around and help her jungler who now has a much easier time invading. It just gives over all better map control and a decent CS lead for Soraka and her ultimate works wonders to turn around a 2v2 botlane or a 1v1 toplane.

Soraka is not picked for her damage output. She is picked for her utility, she can keep your entire team healthy and keep them from going 'oom' in long teamfights, she shreads magic resist and she's pretty much impossible to kill. That's also why you build full tank with maxed out CDR on Soraka (Grail, Rylais, Frozen Heart, Randuins etc.)

Same as Ori. Everyone gets nerfed except her, she become a top pick again.

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Practically un-killable in lane, easy to push the enemy under turret, really low mana costs, ensures that, for instance, if up top there's a 2v2 between the laner and the jungler, with Soraka's ult, that fight will generally swing towards the side of the Soraka's, heals and armour buffs make it ridiculously hard to take down a hyper carry, such as Twitch, hence why he's coming back in and the magic resist shred throughout all enemies in a teamfight if the Soraka is positioned well means they'll get torn apart by a Ryze top etc. Also, the ult and sustain alone in a team fight is ridiculously hard to deal with.
tl;dr: she's a pain in the arse

Heals, Spears, Heals, Spears. But instead of spears, stars are facepalming the enemy.

SHE DOESN'T FUCKING DIE OR LET ANYONE ELSE DIE I HATE HER

Its pretty much a safe pick. It's like a galio pick vs any ap. You have high sustain, increased magic resist and you can interrupt there burst and get to safety.