Aphelios vs Seraphine — Bot Lane (ADC) Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Aphelios against Seraphine · 48.32% win rate over 8,328 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Seraphine is favoured — Seraphine owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Aphelios's 2. Play it patient and win your windows. Aphelios wins 48.32% of games vs Seraphine in bot lane (adc) (8,328 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1SeraphineLevel 1 favors Seraphine as her High Note poke out-ranges your autos.
Level 2SeraphineLevel 2 favors Seraphine with shields, heals and long-range harass.
Level 3SeraphineLevel 3 favors Seraphine as her full poke kit wins every trade.
Levels 4-5SeraphineLevels 4-5 favor Seraphine since you still can't fight into her harass.
Level 6Even / skillLevel 6 is even as Encore's threat meets your arriving item power.
First itemApheliosFirst item favors you as your sustained DPS beats her poke in the 2v2.
Two+ itemsAphelios2+ items favors you as gun-swap DPS and Moonlight Vigil crush her weak sustained damage.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-4 belong to Seraphine: High Note nukes you from range, Surround Sound shields and speeds her out of danger, and Beat Drop heals and slows, so she wins every early trade. You can't fight into that poke, so play behind your caster wave, dodge her Q, farm patiently, and wait for your items.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Aphelios vs Seraphine report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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