•Treat lane like a health ledger: land Q before W whenever the fight allows it, because Soraka is strongest when she is healing teammates with rejuvenation she earned instead of draining herself through them
•Cast E on the square where the enemy kill has to finish—the diver’s landing spot, channel, or follow-up step—since Soraka wins more by breaking the commit than by fishing for extra roots, and her save-heavy games outperform her high-immobilization ones
•In teamfights, keep the Q thread alive: hover where you can tag the nearest safe body for rejuvenation and fund the next W, because Soraka separates more by surviving for one more spell cycle than by posting a huge heal number after she dies