The Seraphine prophecy got fullfilled

This post is about before she was meta.

Seraphine was released as a 'melodic mid lane mage'. She was a farming hypercarry which had a bad early, but a great late game.
But now she got shoehorned into the support role and spikes midgame the best.

Many quality of life features got removed to 'buff' her PVP. That buff was buffing her support PVP capabilities whilst nerfing APC/Mid.

She went from the best waveclearing mage, to at best a medicore one. She can't farm under tower anymore because of her AD nerfs melee creeps will survive with ~3HP.

During everything she lost 15% AP scaling on Q, 3% on her Passive Notes, 20% on R, but gained more base damage which helps support. Her E gained some AP scaling and now her E has more base damage and the same scalings as her Q.. her main damage ability.
https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Seraphine/LoL/Patch_history

During all those patches she went from a ~58% winrate ~5% pickrate for APC OTPs to a ~53.5% WR and 2% pickrate.
She lost 3% pickrate and 5% winrate.
https://lolalytics.com/lol/seraphine/build/?tier=1trick&patch=13.21
https://lolalytics.com/lol/seraphine/build/?tier=1trick&patch=13.21

Her playerbase is dropping her. Her OTPs are dropping her. Many popular Seraphine content creators like Cupic, Cocabob and Odi are dropping her because the changes feel so bad.

Yes her playerbase was 60% support (now 80% due to APC/mid players dropping her), and it needed to balanced.
https://lolalytics.com/lol/seraphine/build/?patch=13.21
https://lolalytics.com/lol/seraphine/build/

She had a bad winrate as support, but that was also due to her support playerbase building her wrong and maxing wrong abilities. (Going AP instead of Enchanter and maxing Q first)

We got told that Seraphine will being balanced around midlane, but she lost her identity balance patch after balance patch.

But now after all those changes, the prophecy fullfilled itself. She is finally Sona V2, but a worse version at that.