Sejuani vs Leona Support
Yesterday, I decided to mix things up a bit in teambuilder and try an irregular support. I decided on Sejuani since she has a little bit of CC (Q and Slows and after Lv6 Ultimate), I thought she'd be able to peel moderately while still dishing out damage.
Pros:
- Can deal more damage than Leona
- At Lv6 She can shutdown hyper carries that try to go after your ADC or other important targets.
- Ultimate's stun is more reliable as it is slightly faster to stun and it slows just like Leona's ultimate.
Cons:
- Not quite as tanky as Leona (negligible in my opinion, due to Sej Passive).
- Engaging is slightly more difficult as Sej's Q is shorter range than Leona's E.
- Only one stun (Not huge since Sej's Q knocks up enemies).
My Sej Build (so far):
I start with Relic and just play Passive Aggressive. I avoid taking unnecessary damage until I feel we have an opening then I go in. Fights before Lv.6 haven't gone terribly well, but not awful either. Once I hit Lv.6 it becomes an easy kill every 2 minutes or so. I've even stunned 4/5 enemies and slowed the 5th with Sej ult (something I've never even come close to doing with Leona).
Relic -> Sightstone -> Iceborn Gauntlet -> Randiuns -> Situational items such as MR or Rylai's.
I feel I did really well as Support Sej but obviously this was only against a couple of enemies. Once against Lux/Caitlyn and another against Thresh/Caitlyn. We won both matches, however, I can't help but feel this was solely because both teams had a Yi both games and all I had to do was Ult their Yi and ours would destroy their team.
Question(s): Is it agreeable that Sejuani can support? Are there other Pros/Cons I have missed? Things to keep in mind? Do you think Sej would be viable without using a hyper-carry like Yi?
Best Answer
I play Sejuani support as well and I love her! I do agree with other people that Sejuani is not as tanky as Leona. However, the main reason that I play her is that her scaling as a support is better than Leona late game. Her W scales with health (max. health as patch 4.21) so building lots of health (even building Fountain and Ruby Stone adds 900 health) will make Sejuani more tanky and deals more DoT.
I agree that with a single target, Sejuani does not have as much CC compared to Leona. However, in teamfight, Sejuani's CC are indeed superior because of all of her CC are AOE and so you can disable more champions in the team fight compared to Leona. I love playing Sejuani because I like to have support that scales well to late game and have AOE CC.
Not saying that Sejuani is better than Leona or anything but I do think that Sejuani support is viable. Those who seeks to have early strong laning phase might not like Sejuani. It is not always about the early game.
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Can Sejuani be a support?
Sejuani scales well with a lot of support items too. Because she primarily scales off health, getting an early Knight's Vow, Eye of the Remnants, or Redemption is really strong. Zeke's Convergence gives her more slows to use in fights, allowing her to lock down more targets.What is Sejuani good at?
Sejuani Why she's good in pro play: Often the best tank jungler in League of Legends, Sejuani offers a team tons of crowd control as well as ranged initiation with her ult. That, along with her passive, makes any gank she starts result in at least a flash blown. She also has a fairly decent early clear.Who can counter Sejuani?
The Best Sejuani Counter Picks in League of Legends for patch 12.10, Ranked Boost recommends these picks due to their win condition and abilities.- The Monkey King.
- C. Nocturne. The Eternal Nightmare.
- Maokai. The Twisted Treant.
Does Sejuani counter Yi?
Master Yi Jungle vs Sejuani Jungle Build & RunesMaster Yi wins against Sejuani 47.62% of the time which is 0.40% lower against Sejuani than the average opponent. After normalising both champions win rates Master Yi wins against Sejuani 1.47% more often than would be expected.SEJUANI TOP È MOLTO FORTE
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Answer 2
Aside from Leona's passive, she also has two forms of hard CC in lane at level 2 (E and Q), where Sej only has 1! This is super important in early engagements, especially from levels 2-5 when a lot of "who won bot lane" is decided. Sej passive and Leona W kind of cancel out in terms of defense, Leona gets more tankiness but Sej gets the small slow.
I can't say for sure that Sej would or wouldn't work, but I think getting to level 6 with a kill, and without dying, with Leona will be easier than with Sejuani.
Answer 3
The biggest con of sej support is that most (all?) of her abilities do AoE damage. This is an issue because it mucks with your marksman's ability to farm.
All of your abilities also somewhat expose you to poke if you try to harass. And there are better options to deal with master yi. (yi is a poor example for sej cause he can avoid a lot of her slowing abilities).
Others issues include she has little utility, no protective(others) abilities, and doesn't fill the tanky support role well early.
Sej will most likely not see a surge in support play anytime soon, and her abilities are much better suited for other roles.
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