Soraka

I Lend My Aid

Lane harassment and consistent damage output.

Sorcery

Empowered abilities and resource manipulation

Summon Aery

Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemies or shielding allies.
Manaflow Band

Hitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana.

After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
Celerity

All Move Speed bonuses are 7% more effective on you and gain 1% Move Speed.
Scorch

Your first damaging ability hit every 10s burns champions.

Resolve

Durability and crowd control

Revitalize

Gain 5% Heal and Shield Power.

Heals and shields you cast or receive are 10% stronger on targets below 40% health.
Bone Plating

After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage.

Duration: 1.5s
Cooldown: 55s

Adaptive Force

+9 Adaptive Force
Adaptive Force

+9 Adaptive Force
Health Scaling

+10-180 Health (based on level)

Why Summon Aery

Summon Aery is a great option for Soraka both offensively (with autos and [Q]) and defensively (with [W]).

Why Manaflow Band

Manaflow Band is a great option here for Soraka because you're going to want to play aggressively in lane early spamming [Q].

Why Celerity

Celerity on Soraka allows you to position yourself safely in teamfights and skirmishes so that you're able to continue pumping out heals. As a added benefit, when your passive kicks in and you get the Bonus Movement Speed towards low allies, Celerity will grant a bit more extra AP to empower those heals.

Why Scorch

Scorch allows you to dominate the lane phase if you're able to consistently land your [Q].

WhyRevitalize

Because you're going to be healing so much over the course of the game, Revitalize gets fantastic value, especially if the target is low health.

WhyBone Plating

Bone plating allows you to survive all-ins and early trades where you might otherwise die.