Personally I think shes a great bot...and that she should stay there. And never. EVER. Go top D:

She's a great champ. Ranged silence, good aoe damage, armor buff with a heal component and full team heal as well. To be able to take advantage of the aoe you do want to be very tanky though, and her lack of CC makes Rylai pretty much staple/necessary.

As far as sending her bot and nowhere else, I think she could do well top. She's very sustainable and her spammable aoe means that as long as she's alive no one is capping the tower. With the slow from Rylai's and her silence, she can kite people for a very long time as well, meaning there's plenty of time for reinforcement to come, if she can't outright kill the target herself.

Go tanky Soraka and spam Q all day long at tower. Raging guaranteed.

She's an obnoxious bot. Destroys people who don't understand how Soraka works. i.e Most people.

Pretty easy to beat if you know what to do and who to pick.

Soraka makes yoricks cry

I don't fear Soraka 1v1 bot. She can hold a lane, and sustains reasonably well, but the only really great thing about a solo Soraka lane is the map-wide Wishes to heal everyone.

What is totally obnoxious is Soraka and a friend bottom, particularly a tanky friend like Warwick. Soraka and a friend are incredibly difficult to dislodge without overcommitting, and can dive towers as though they weren't even there.

soraka healing someone bot is pretty great