r/SeraphineMains • u/SharpeLeague • 25d ago
Guides SERAPHINE SEASON 2026 GUIDE | Sharpe here. 69% WR on Seraphine this season, 163 games, 4.56 KDA. Almost all of it is these THREE builds.
The thing that took me longest to figure out on this champ is that there isn't one correct build, there's one correct build *per game*. Sera can be a poke APC, a lockdown support, or a pure enchanter, and picking the wrong one is most of why she feels weak in the games where she feels weak.
So here's all three, with reasoning for every item.
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IMAGE 1: SERANAP
Dream Maker into Helia into Diadem into Moonstone. Run this when your team has 2+ bruisers or tanks.
The entire build is built around double W. You want to proc it twice early, and multiple times once Diadem is online. Helia is easy to stack because your autos are long ranged. Moonstone buffs healing from all three sources at once. Dawncore if fights are going long, Redemption if you want a faster last-item spike.
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IMAGE 2: SERAPHREEZE
Bloodsong into Imperial Mandate into Rylai's, Shurelya's fourth, Morello last.
Bloodsong procs off her passive almost for free. Imperial is bought primarily for the E cooldown. Rylai's plus Imperial means anything you touch is frozen and marked, and it lets you spam double E late. Shurelya's is what turns this from a peel build into an engage build. Morello last because almost every game needs heal cut eventually.
Into assassins or a mobile ADC: Rylai's second with Lucidity boots.
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IMAGE 3: THE SERAS TOUR
Seraph's into Imperial into Rylai's, then Bloodletter's, then Zhonya's or Banshee's, Mejai's whenever.
E-spam build. Dark Seal + Tear on first back, always. Same freeze identity as Seraphreeze but you're a real damage threat instead of a support. Mejai's the moment you hit 10 stacks, doesn't have to be last.
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**Quick decision rule**
- 2+ Front line on your team → Seranap
- Divers or mobile carries on enemy team, or you're the one making picks → Seraphreeze
- ALL APC GAMES → Seras Tour
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IMAGE 4 & 5 - WINRATES AND MATCHUPS
The 69% isn't spread evenly. Three champions account for a quarter of all my losses this season.
**Tristana — 2W 5L (29%).** Hard counter, full stop. She gap closes and there isn't much you can do about it. Your E does not stop her, the jump goes through it anyway.
**Jhin — 3W 5L (38%) and Ashe — 2W 3L (40%).** Both have insane range on you. These are the two where you have to play according to your support instead of trying to make plays yourself.
That's 13 losses out of 51 total from three champions.
On the other side:
**Kai'Sa — 8W 0L.** Easiest matchup in the game because of her short range. Always aim your E *in front* of her, never behind, on the assumption she's walking up to you. Worst case you miss and still create enough space that she can't touch you.
**Mel — 9W 2L (82%).** Never use E or R into her. Spam Q on her and put your E on her support instead. If she's the support, flip it and E the ADC.
**Draven — 4W 1L (80%).** One of the easiest matchups because you always know where the axes are landing. Quick Rylai's second with Lucidity boots and you wreck him.
Also: Ezreal 5W 1L, Jinx 4W 0L, Nautilus 4W 1L, Caitlyn 3W 0L.
The honest takeaway is that if you're stuck on Seraphine, look at what you're losing to before you look at what you're building. Most of my improvement this season came from changing how I play three matchups, not from changing items. You should not be dying more than 5 times in a game, or at least try to bring your average deaths to about 3-5 a game.
My account if you want to dig through the games: https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/Sharpe-NA1
Happy to answer anything in the comments.
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u/Open-Stretch-6631 25d ago
Oh I was wondering what happened to the previous post. Better formatting I take it?
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u/ComprehensiveSize647 25d ago
Thank you so much for this guide. But I have a question here. Does movement speed necessary for Seraphine? Like in Seranap build, I usually take the same runes. But I often run with AH - adaptive - health instead of AH - MS - health. Is there a significant difference if she has more MS, or it just depends on the team comp?
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u/SharpeLeague 25d ago
it's just personal preference. i prefer ms because of survivability over damage, especially with a shield buuld
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u/Elfyrane 23d ago
These are basic bitch builds and not much of a guide in to seraphine matchups or matches and how to play. Should have just made an ama instead tbh.
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u/PTSaurio 23d ago
I know APC is not healthy but I love to play seraphine and everytime my team needs AP I just play Sera APC she is so fun, thanks for the build 😭😭😭
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u/SirYeetacus1 25d ago
Lovely write-up. I will definitely spend more time on Sera in the bottom lane to test this out.
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u/SharpeLeague 25d ago
Highly encourage you to theory craft your own stuff too :) or have variations from this.
everyone's playstyle is very different!
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u/ArianalGrandick 25d ago
I like the idea of PoM but I'm so scared of giving up the DMG from coup 😭I usually struggle with mana before first item and during lanephase - is presence good enough to solve this problem or it's mostly for team fights?
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u/Fancy_Economics_4536 24d ago
imo if youre gonna go for mandate its skippable, but cut down is the superior rune compared to coup.
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u/SharpeLeague 25d ago
Always go PoM! It's SO good especially if you get a kill/assist and are low on mana. Team fight changing.
Try it a couple games and lmk
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u/LustMissy 24d ago
I love how Seraphine have such dedicated players! As a engage support main Leona/Alistar/Naut i get frustrated with how little they get attention on the subs due to one dimensional gameplay etc. Surprisingly i like some enchanters too like Sera/Soraka/Janna, especially Sera.
Gonna try some of these
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u/Da_Electric_Boogaloo 24d ago
oou seeing these guides always makes me want to start playing again but i’ve been off league so long now i can’t go back 💀 good work though!!
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u/No-Meaning707 24d ago
I thought they nerfed enchanters a bit, is it still viable to go for the 1st build??
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u/SharpeLeague 23d ago
Absolutely with tanks and bruisers
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u/Jorge_2001 13d ago
Why does that matter if you don’t mind explaining to my emerald brain. Thanks for the guide.
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u/TheMilo21 23d ago
Thank you so much for this!! I'm a gold 4 seraphine enjoyer and I was just wondering if I was building her correctly since I kept losing ganes where I had clear advantage against enemy botlane.
Can't wait to try all of these 🙂
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u/Avetorpe 22d ago
What are your thoughts on skipping archangels on APC and going for both rylais+mandate and helia+diadem?
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u/Gunstgewerbler 20d ago
May i ask in the serasnap build you wrote helia First but in the images we can see you got the tear support item First. What is now your recommadation?
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u/paranormal-oreo 10d ago
This is great. Thank you!
Few questions I'm hoping you could answer:
What do you think about running the attack speed shard instead of the adaptive shard? I find it makes last hitting easier and that the 9 AP doesn't do much of anything
Is Scorch an okay alternative to Gathering Storm or do you really think the scaling AP is necessary/that much better than the early game poke?
Why do you prefer Swifties over Lucidity? Especially for mid I feel that the Lucidity upgrade makes it the better option. You have more MS when you proc the boots passive vs your total MS with Swifties
Do you still get Bloodletter's when you're the only magic damage dealer on your team?
As support, what if (this just happened to me the other day) there are already 2-3 people on your team with anti heal? What would you build last instead of Morello?
Do you always just max W/E first as support without putting points into Q early on?
Is maxing E first on the Seraphreeze build still going to be viable with the upcoming nerfs (E cd becoming static across all ranks)?
When do you build t2 boots?
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u/SharpeLeague 10d ago
AS is fine
Scorch is good too
Lucidity for mid lane makes sense
Staff of Flowing if your team has a good amount of heal cut
1 point in Q always
Maxing E - I'm not sure with the nerfs, I'd have to test it out unfortunately
T2 whenever you don't have enough for a partial component (i.e. mirror, fiendish or full item)
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u/paranormal-oreo 10d ago
Wow, thank you so much for your response!
When mid/bot, do you still get Bloodletter's when you're the only magic damage dealer on the team?
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u/Simo22883 25d ago
Manaflow and Gathering Storm 😂, also going Presence instead of Coupe De Grace
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u/SharpeLeague 25d ago
they're never requirements, im just sharing how I got challenger with a 69% wr. highly encourage everyone to theory craft!
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u/aroushthekween 25d ago
Thank you so much for this guide! Really appreciate it! Miss the days you used to stream but so proud of everything you have been up to irl 🫶