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[4.3] Seraphine Guide - A complete guide for all her roles

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Patch 4.3

October 17, 2023 14:41

A complete guide for all her roles

An short all around guide about Seraphine/Seraphone in all of her possible roles. Hope this guide will help you to change the outcome of some of your games.

Pros

Great flex pick (APC, Mid or Support)
Good scaling into the lategame
Teamfight monster (ultimate, good range root with e + Rylai's)
quite a lot of item choices and build variety
Great waveclear

Cons

no mobility
can be seen as troll pick APC by some low elo idiots (full ad comps?)
long cooldowns early on.

Seraphine Build

Best Build Guide for Seraphine

Starting Items

Core Items

Full Damage APC/Mid

Utility APC/Support

Situational Items

Other Items to consider

Item Build Description

Additional information on the items

Core Mid/APC

First off to reduce the confusion:

Your first item to plan should be either Archangel's Staff or Luden's Echo .

Luden's Echo is an earlier power spike and offers better burst early on which stays great in late game. Archangel's Staff on the other hand takes some time to come up and transform into Seraph's Embrace . I usually tend to buy Lost Chapter and Tear of the Goddess and stack the tear to ~600 before i finish Archangel's Staff . Overall Seraph's Embrace adds more AP and a usefull lifeline passive and is an good option if you play Mid or APC Seraphine. For support i would always take Seraph's Embrace over Luden's Echo .

During the entire time stacking i finish my Rylai's Crystal Scepter . This item is massive on Seraphine because every cast of your Beat Drop will now be a root. The double cast with Stage Presence will stun the target instead.

Optionals

Luden's Echo	You already have Seraph's Embrace and Rylai's Crystal Scepter so is Luden's Echo still a good option? Actually? Yes. Still offers good damage + due to the bonus Mana on Ludens you gain aditional AP on Seraph's Embrace
Rabadon's Deathcap	Actually less optional than other items on the list. I tend to get it as 4th item since it has the highest AP in game and gives you more benefits from the other items you already build before. Only not needed as a full support, but Harmonic Echo benefits from this aswell.
Liandry's Torment	Seraphine can spam spells lategame and constantly apply Liandry's burn effect which ramps up damage over time. Additional great is the ramping up damage you do with this item f.e. after you start a fight with your Encore
Void Staff	Mid/APC get this item last. You need the magic pen. As support you can ignore it.
Staff of Flowing Waters	Great item if you build utility or support. Adding ability haste and AP whenever you shield someone. Especially in AP heavy comps you benefit from getting this item quickly.
Harmonic Echo	In PC League people used to build Moonstone Renewer + Staff of flowing waters every game on Seraphine due to the broken synergy. Harmonic Echo kinda is the closest thing we get to Moonstone but the group heal works really good with your Surround Sound
Morellonomicon	Only against Soraka , Sona or Yuumi .
Ardent Censer	If you are support and your team is AD heavy you might rather wanna pick up this than Staff of Flowing Waters , but you will miss out on the AP and AH. Also good if you wanna go full support.
Athene's Unholy Grail	Another good support choice. You will be able to pick up the stacks really quick since you can spam your abilities and they have good AoE so you always should be able to hit someone.
Banshee's Veil	In case you need magic resist this is the best choice you get. On top of those you also gain a spell shield.. neat!
Crystalline Reflector	Only recommended against AD heavy comps if you struggle to survive. You get 3 charges really quick.
Lich Bane	Great lategame. Would help you push if you already have lots of AP so you take towers faster. Also you benefit a lot from the Spellblade passive of this item. Lil Sidenote: this works really well with your passive.
Awakened Soulstealer	Lots of ultimate haste. 100 AH = 50% CDR, and this item already gives you 40 AH. I honestly would only give this item on support a shot since other options on Mid or APC gives you more AP which is more valuable since at lvl 9 you will have your ultimate every teamfight anyway.

Seraphine Runes

Best Runes for Seraphine

Keystone

Summon Aery

Domination

Gathering Storm

Resolve

Conditioning

Inspiration

Manaflow Band

Standard Poke Build

Keystone:

Take care you proc Summon Aery as much as you can for the bonus damage.

Domination:

Gathering Storm is just to add up to your good lategame scaling. i wouldnt take any other option. Brutal is in my opinion kinda overhyped. Yea the flat stats have been amazing for a lot of champs but mathematically Gathering Storm . outscales with the 3rd proc.

Resolve:

Conditioning is one option i like to play due to the added up scaling, but [bone platin] is for example really good vs champions who look for a all out combo, while Hunter Titan is good against a lot of cc. Last but not least Adaptive Carapace is also an amazing choice. Pick what you prefer/need for the matchup :)

Inspiration:

Manaflow Band is not as good as it's pc counterpart (due to the lack of mana regeneration uppon fully stacked) but still best choice due to the added mana for Archangel's Staff . Another good option would be Hunter Genius especially since the ability haste (AH) was lowered on Archangel's Staff .

Keystone

Electrocute

Domination

Gathering Storm

Resolve

Conditioning

Inspiration

Manaflow Band

Burst Build:

The only change to the other set is the keystone, for the Domination, Resolve and Inspiration runes.

I picked Electrocute here due to the burst it gives you over Summon Aery . When you have [seraphine:passive] fully stacked you can easily proc Electrocute but due to the cooldown of this rune i rather go for the poke with Summon Aery . An additional benefit of Aery is the shield for allies, but i still have to call out that option :)

Keystone

Font of Life

Domination

Weakness

Resolve

Loyalty

Inspiration

Manaflow Band

Support orriented:

Keystone:

Font of Life and Summon Aery are both viable choices for this build option. Font of Life adds a lot of sustain to your lane due to you being able to easy mark enemies with your long range. Summon Aery adds just shields to your [seraphine:2] and some poke damage for the more agressive lane.

Domination:

Since this is the support option its time to talk about Weakness . As a support your main goal is it not to deal that much damage so there is no better option since you don't need the scaling from Gathering Storm

Resolve:

[loyality] is a good choice for any support due to the additional armor for you and your lane partner, but you should still consider Hunter Titan vs cc heavy comps.

Inspiration:

Manaflow Band or Hunter Genius . Explained why in the poke build. Pack Hunter is another option, but meh.. i just don't like it.