Am I correctly understanding how Seraph's Embrace works?

Risen29·Sep 1, 2016·1 votes·1,171 views

I'm trying to figure out what gives me the most AP late game.

Viktor will have 1624 mana at level 18 with upgraded hexcore. That should give him +48.72 AP with Seraph's Embrace only counting his base mana. He should get another +30 AP if you count the +1000 mana from Seraph's Embrace. So it should give him a total of about 160 AP, not counting other potential mana sources from items.

So my question is then, am I doing the math correctly? Because if so, this seems like a great late game pure AP item after Rabadon's Deathcap. Which makes me wonder why it seems to be so rarely built.

3 Comments

LilStacey87Sep 1, 20161 votes

Yea, I did the math and got about 160 AP too. Seems like this item is great in the late game. But you might not see it built often because the mages being played don't have spammable moves to stack the tear item 3070

Registeel1234Sep 1, 20161 votes

first of, yes, you are doing the math correctly.

Secondly, Seraph isn't built a lot because it takes a lot of time to ramp up and takes a lot of gold. you must spam spells while having Tear, which isn't good for every champion (making you push lane or making you go oom in the process or just long CDs). It also makes your laning phase a lot weaker, since your first 750 golds goes into mana only, which gives you no offensive or defensive value (aside from being able to cast 1 or 2 extra spells after a while).

If you take it too late, you don't get the time to ramp it up before the game ends