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Recommended Items
Runes: goated electrocute build
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor
Spells:
Flash
Teleport
Items
Ability Order pretty much every situation
Stage Presence (PASSIVE)
Seraphine Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Zed
can easily dodge your harass and ultimate, and is your typical assassin.
Twitch
Seraphine ult into twitch ult is absolutely nasty. Plus, when he's in stealth, you can ult through him for a surprise long-range engage.
Twitch
Seraphine ult into twitch ult is absolutely nasty. Plus, when he's in stealth, you can ult through him for a surprise long-range engage.
Champion Build Guide
I've been playing Seraphine in carry roles for a while now, including in custom 5v5s and clash-like tournaments. I've gotten multiple highlight-reel ultimates, and with this guide, I hope that you will too!
Without further ado: welcome to more notes about Anti-Kneecaps Seraphine!
There are many reasons that people hate Seraphine, some of which are legitimate, and some of which are decidedly... not. I'm about to break these down (somewhat) and talk about how you can use this as fuel in your mental battle.
The Skarner Argument
Putting Seraphine's lore as bluntly and brutally as possible, she basically uses the souls of a dead race inside a crystal to help her power her singing ability to create change, while doing nothing to pay back the trapped species. (That's why the Seraphine vs. Skarner rivalry is joke about so often, since it's his people that are in her crystals.) A lot of people argue that they dislike Seraphine because of how she hypocritically claims to be working for good while enslaving a species, but honestly, it's hard to believe that she's doing that intentionally. And even if she is, she wouldn't be the first champion to have some rather twisted principles, and I honestly think that it would add a very cruel twist to her character that would be interesting, even if it is unwanted. So that argument doesn't really hold up.
The Character Design Argument:
Seraphine is from Piltover, and her parents originally lived in Zaun, so imagine everyone's surprise when she ended up in a sparkly skirt and cutesy white jacket costume when she's supposed to be some steampunk aesthetic. Not to mention her pink hair. But realistically speaking, she's trying to be an idol. Of course she doesn't blend in. To be an idol, you have to stand out. Plus, weird hair colors are kind of a staple in Piltover and Zaun—see Vi, Zeri and Jinx, for example.
If you're interested in hearing a longer breakdown of this issue, I highly recommend checking out TBSkyen's videos on the topic. He's a very engaging analyst, and makes some great high-quality content.
The Annoying Voice Argument:
This one might be a little more valid. Admittedly, after so many games with Seraphine, her idle music turns into a real earsore. But that can be fixed, and, well, the same goes for any champion.
The Social Media Argument:
Previously, Riot managed Seraphine's twitter account seradotwav, in which "Seraphine" tweeted out to her audience in a way that would eventually get somewhat manipulative and seem to be forming parasocial relationships. Understandably, people weren't too pleased with how manipulative and "not-like-the-other-girls" Seraphine acted online, but remember: that was literally a Riot employee sipping their coffee at their desk, not a literal make-believe character. But if you want to hate Seraphine, this is your best excuse.
The Secret Argument:
At the end of the day, a lot of the hate for Seraphine can be boiled down to one thing. Before I say it, please notice that I said A LOT, not ALL of it. Some people have somewhat legitimate reasons for disliking her, and that's fine.
But for a lot of people, they just hate her because of toxic masculinity. She's the epitome of the gamer girl stereotype, with her cutesy voice and cheerful personality and blue eyes and light pink hair. And, well, this community is more than a little toxic and sexist. Even if they don't admit it, a lot of people simply hate Seraphine because she's a girl.
Think about it. Jhin is a literal serial killer that views his murders as an art form, Swain likes conquering Asian-coded lands for fun, and Azir is a king from the stone age that probably still thinks slavery is chill. None of them receive the hate Seraphine does. Jhin and Swain are very dedicated to their disgusting missions, while Seraphine might not even be aware of what she's doing. So why does she get all the hate?
The "Valid" Argument:
people hate her not because of her personality, or gender, or lore, or whatever, but because they're bad at playing against her, and that's that. It's like hating Yasuo or Katarina or Yone. It's understandable This one is based on actual in-game reasons instead of a thousand flimsy ones.
So for those of you who hate Seraphine because playing against her sucks (whether it's because you're inting, or your team is inting), I respect that. But consider this: play her instead and inflict the mental damage back on your enemies.
There's a reason that I like this combo so much. Seraphine's E works perfectly with the slow on Senna's Q and the root on her W, plus Sera's W will heal off of Senna's ultimate shield. You should have great poke and sustain in lane.
Generally, in this combo, Senna is the "support," meaning that she builds a support item and lets you farm. This will help you reach your power spike much faster, obviously, but also increases the amount of souls she will get in lane. With your ultimate being extended by hitting champions, and her global ultimate, you have a lot of long-rage potential, especially as Senna scales. Your kill pressure is very low in the early game without your jungler, but there should also be very little pressure on you.
If I may share a personal anecdote—I was put into the support role one game, and I wasn't originally planning on playing Seraphine. In fact, I was hoping to get practice on a champion that I didn't have Mastery 7 on. (weird flex...) When I saw my ADC hover Senna, however, I almost instantly locked Seraphine. Our laning phase was chill for the first few minutes, and just as described, we had good poke and sustain, but little to no kill pressure.
It was then that my ADC spoke. "Feel free to build AP," she wrote. "I didn't think I'd get ADC, sorry." The gears in my head started turning instantly. I hadn't asked her about the possibility of fasting Senna for the fear that she would rage quit, but now I thought it was worth a shot.
"You wanna just do farming Sera, fasting Senna?" I asked.
"Yknow what? Bet," she said, and the rest was history.
We took a (slightly troll) back, and she switched her starter item to the support item, while I got rid of mine to trade it for a Doran's Ring. The recall timing was a little bit bad, but it was absolutely necessary considering that if I farmed too much, my support item would begin to reduce the gold I got from the wave, and I also wanted Senna to get her item upgraded as soon as possible. We were almost ten minutes into the game, so I was at a horrible CS disadvantage (around 2 to the enemy's 60) and I won't lie, that disadvantage never disappeared. But here's the good thing: it didn't get worse, either. Seraphine is stupidly easy to CS on, especially once you get Tear/Lost Chapter, so it didn't take many braincells for me to begin cashing in.
OP.GG will tell you that I inted or that I didn't CS enough. I will tell you that we won, and it wasn't even close, so take that, statistics.
Moral of the story: Seraphine and Senna are broken together. Don't be afraid to bring up fasting Senna. Your ADC just might not be a toxic rat! (for clarification reasons: if your ADC is literally a toxic rat, aka Twitch, do not ask them to let you farm)
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