Seraphine ADC is the new meta and here’s how to play it
Seraphine is a champion that has recently gained popularity as an ADC in League of Legends. Her burst damage, along with her versatility in teamfights, has made her a terrifying champion to face.
Aside from that, her laning is pretty good, since she can easily play weakside. In fact, her strength has been much more prominent after the champion durability updates.
According to League statistic U.GG, Seraphine is currently the second-ranked ADC champion with an S+ tier that has 54.44% win rate. As a result, in the current stage, her survivability is unparalleled.
Here’s how to play the Starry-Eyed Songstress!
Keystone and runes
Primary Rune (Sorcery): Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch
Secondary Rune (Inspiration): Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight
The runes make it quite obvious that the intention is to do as much poke damage as possible. Seraphine can simply harass the opposing enemies and slowly burning down their health bar with her long-ranged ability.
Her secondary runes are designed to increase her lane sustainability with Biscuit Delivery and spam her skills with Cosmic Insight. Thus, the runes are planned to harass the enemies’ laning phase as much as possible.
Items
- Liandry’s Anguish
- Archangel’s Staff
- Zhonya’s Hourglass
When it comes to Seraphine’s item build, it’s important to note that she has to poke as much as possible. Ability haste is obviously vital as well since Seraphine has to spam her skills as often as possible.
Liandry’s Anguish is critical in this build because it is Seraphine’s major source of damage. After that, the important items should be Archangel’s Staff and Zhonya’s Hourglass to improve the attack and offer durability against burst damage.
Boots can be situational, but for most of her gameplay, Boots of Lucidity are the ideal choice.
Once the core item path is achieved, more items such as Deathcap or Rylai can be built.
Gameplay
Seraphine ADC’s ability to control the lane all by herself is one of her most important aspects in this new meta. This is why Seraphine has a lot of open space to farm up and hence construct her items incredibly fast. In reality, this is why the support in Seraphine’s lane may constantly roam freely because she is mostly safe from dives and ganks.
In terms of gameplay, the goal is to continue spamming her Q as often as possible in order to farm her Mythic item. Players should try to max Q first.
Her W is also critical throughout the laning phase since it keeps her healthy. However, it has a very long cooldown, so players should avoid spamming it and save it when you see the enemies have a chance to dive. R should be used whenever allowed because it is Seraphine’s primary engage tool, as well as a large team, fight ultimate.
One last thing to note is that players should ban champions that can out-range her, as they might make it difficult for Seraphine to farm and poke.