Should You Main Seraphine? Tier D
Seraphine is tier D for maining. Only 23 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 1,277,339 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Seraphine scores 1.52 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, against a median of 2.26.
The numbers
Score 1.52 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 2 Challenger · 21 Grandmaster · 117 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 1,277,339 games played worldwide · 13.86% pick rate · 15.39% ban rate
Ban rate warning. Seraphine is banned in 15.39% of games. Even where the density number is strong, you will not get to play it in roughly one game in 6.
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
Surfing is going to be pretty bad to main just because there's going to be a lot of players on Seraphine. It's going to be banned 15% of the time and then you're going to be contested like 14 I guess it's going to be picked 14% of the time. There's only two challenger Saraphines.
I think it counts for one of those spots and yeah, it's going to be tough to like it's you're going to have two challenger spots and 21 GM spots on surfing. So, I guess you can count GM spots. If you just want GM, then it's going to be fun, but yeah, it's going to be a little bit difficult to little little bit difficult to climb.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.