Ever since her release Seraphine has had a bumpy ride in the meta. Initially designed as a midlaner, she ended up as support in most games due to her strengths in crowd control and healing. But now another role has opened up for her in the everchanging balance. While she stays on the botlane, Seraphine has increasingly become popular as AP Carry.
Even the top leagues are playing her as G2 demostrated in their match against Schalke 04 during the playoffs.
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According to u.gg Seraphine has the highest winrates in the Gold bracket and she has enjoyed that success for several patches already. Currently she boasts of 55,71% and leaves other AD Carries in the dust behind her.
Seraphine heals and deals damage
To understand why exactly she is in such a dominating role, we need to take a closer look at her kit. While Seraphine is a Mage and has strong heals in her W, her damage output is quite significant. Utilizing Q she can attack opponents from far away with a large AoE. Her E not only slows and immobilizes enemies, it actually also deals a lot of damage.
Topping it all off is her passive ability: Every third spellcast will be cast twice. Players can use that to double the healing or damage output in bursts. But her scariest abilitiy is without a doubt her ultimate. “Encore” throws out a column AoE in front of her that charms opponents and even travels further if you hit allies or enemies with it. That makes it a key ability to use in teamfights.
Keep your allies alive
Even if you play Seraphine as AP Carry, you should have another strong Carry on your side as Seraphine will fall off in later portions of the game. Your itembuild should reflect that fact. While you are the Carry on your lane you should keep building support items like Moonstone Renewer, Staff of Flowing Water and Chemtech Putrifier. Since you will farm a lot faster compared to support play, you will get those items on a lot faster timings that allow you to boost your healing significantly.
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Now you only need to keep to the backline of your team. Use your ultimate to initiate fights and distribute healing to your teammates. You should be able to easily keep the health of your teammates up and leave a won teamfight with almost full health bars.
G2’s Rekkles did exactly that in their match against Schalke 04 in the Upper Bracket of the LEC Summer playoffs. He healed his entire team for over 32,000 health and made it almost impossible for Schalke 04 to kill any G2 members without dealing with Seraphine first.
If you pair up with an Engage-Support on the Bot Lane you become a veritable threat to the opposing team the longer the match lasts. You transition into the role of a farmed secondary support to enable your Support to initiate fights and act as frontliner while you keep him and the rest of your team up.
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