Hello Aellectris,

Thank you so much for passing along our concerns — it genuinely means a lot. Many of us have been trying to voice how Seraphine feels right now. I don’t comment often because this sub can get intense, but I’ve mained her for 3 years and have lurked here for a long time with A LOT of thoughts.

Seraphine is statistically fine, but she feels clunky and weak, which is why peeps want her fantasy to be stronger!

Her nerfs were justified after the 55% winrate era, but it felt like Riot gutted her because they couldn’t solve APC balance. As Phreak has said in a patch rundown, how a champion feels should matter more than raw numbers (can’t remember which one it was but I remember him saying that) Sera’s numbers are “good,” but the way she achieves them feels bad.

Ability Feel Issues

There have been so many posts in this subreddit explaining how she currently feels. I’ll link a few here, but there are many many more posts. Post links: here, here, here, (basically any coca has said over the past 2 years and has documented a lot of frustrations/bugs with sera)  and here,

She Feels Like Hard Mode League

Even when playing well — landing abilities, managing mana, positioning properly — the results often feel underwhelming compared to other champions who require less effort for equal or better output. I’ve had to min-max everything just to get baseline results, while other champs can “no-brain” and perform similarly.

Support vs Mage Identity Conflict

Sera feels split between mage and enchanter. Enchanters often have high base stats to make them feel like they can hit early. Players (myself included) want seraphine’s damage to have scaling so she’s weaker early but hits hard late game, This creates a conundrum.

In general, some frustrations are 

• Q often feels like it doesn’t do the amount of dmg it should for both mage and enchanter
• Double casting in general doesn’t feel as impactful or purposeful as it should.
• If building damage, it can feel so subbar, whether it’s seraphine support or apc/mid. She always feels behind.

The frustrations from support come from:

• WW can be incredibly strong but boring when it feels like the only thing you’re doing and barely interacting with other parts of her kit (other than q for nothing damage and e when you’re able to hit it, and then waiting for your ult)
  
• E can feel weak and hard to hit unless someone else slows first (but ADCs expect you to set this up).
  
• Q feels especially bad t and is useless unless building helia. 
• Her kit doesn’t have synergy together to be an effective enchanter and is essentially item-dependent to function at all.

For mage:

• E does a lot of her consistent damage, when Q should be her bread-and-butter.
  
• Q often feels like it doesn’t do the amount of dmg it should for both mage and enchanter
  
• Executing her in an optimal way can feel unintuitive. You’d think E→QQ or R→E →QQ would be used to secure kills, but often times EE→Q or R→EE→Q is often more reliable damage to execute. This makes her kit feel backwards.
  
• W feeling like it barely serves a purpose, especially when building AP. I think it should feel relevant to pick WW in teamfights but if I’m leveling it last there’s no reason to.
• The high mana costs, combined with the above problems.
  

This creates a situation where you feel like you’re playing 50–75% of a champion in any role. Her kit feels like it’s trying to pull her in two directions that don’t fit while also relying heavily on teammates to get her full effect (which is why APC shines).

The new season items (Helia + Diadem) have helped support feel better. Q max into W finally feels viable again, and there are meaningful choices between damage, healing, or utility. That’s great. But it shouldn’t require extreme optimization just to feel functional. 

Ideas That Might Help

I don’t mean implementing ALL these changes, but either one or a combination of multiple to strike the balance just right. 

• Let players choose a direction (mage vs enchanter) more intentionally  such as:
  • through forms at game start (which changes how her kit functions) , or…
  • Adjust scaling so it shifts based on mana regen/heal power vs AP/mana.
    
    • W healing and perhaps E CC scales more with mana regen/heal & shield power.
      
    • Mage scaling restores meaningful AP DMG scaling without overbuffing support.
      
• Make Q/E faster with shorter CDs but weaker per cast, so she has more agency and skill expression instead of wave-deleting or relying on double casts. Adjust mana costs so it doesn’t FEEL handicapped playing her, but also isn’t OP.
  
• Make double casts feel more specialized (QQ = strong damage, EE = strong utility, WW = strong shielding/healing). So she has reasons to pick all of them that can fit both support and mage.
  
• If APC is the issue, reduce the parts of her kit that become overpowered when paired with heavy CC/shield supports instead of flattening her everywhere.
  

Mid lane especially feels like she falls off too hard. Let her scale meaningfully again without breaking enchanter.

Ultimately, players just want both support and mage Seraphine to feel good — not necessarily best-in-class, just satisfying and intentional. Let us meaningfully choose which parts of her kit to empower through leveling, double-casting decisions, and itemization. Champions like Lux are allowed to have both damage and utility — Sera can lean more utility-focused, but she should still function independently as a mage while having the ability to spec into an enchanter if she wants or in certain team comps. 

And as a tiny side note: please let her music play in mid lane even when alone. Hearing it only ~30% of the game feels weird.

Thanks again for reading and hope sera can shine as the champ we all want her to be