Soraka vs Neeko Counter Pick

Neeko’s threat is positional rather than statistical. Inherent Glamour lets her walk into a fight wearing an ally’s shape, and Pop Blossom needs that disguise to work: the leap knocks up everything nearby and stuns on landing, but only after a visible preparation. Everything Soraka does against it happens in the seconds before that preparation ends.

• Both champions attack from 550 units, so Blooming Burst and Starcall trade at the same distance and neither support wins the poke war on reach alone.
• Neeko carries 21 base armor against Soraka’s 32, and 2,378 health at level 18 against 2,101, a body built for damage rather than for a long exchange.
• Equinox silences inside the zone and roots on expiry, the cheapest way to interrupt a Tangle-Barbs angle or punish a committed Pop Blossom.

Both deal magic damage, and with 30 base magic resistance on each side the exchange is decided by cooldowns instead of resistances. Neeko is the faster champion at 340 movement speed to 325, and Salvation only closes that gap when an ally is already low on health. Neeko also opens with 48 base attack damage, the lower figure of the two, so her early pressure is entirely ability-driven and dries up whenever her mana does. Over 437 games on patch 16.13.1, Soraka holds a 56.5 percent win rate against Neeko, an easy grade on a sample large enough to be meaningful.