Sejuani

The cold never bargains, and Sejuani doesn’t either.

She commands the Winter’s Claw, among the most feared warbands the Freljord has ever produced, and every year she drives them through a war with the elements that has no place for gentleness. To survive, they raid Noxians, Demacians, and Avarosans alike whenever the bleak season forces their hand. The most perilous of those raids are hers to lead: she rides into the fray on her drüvask boar Bristle, swinging a flail forged from True Ice that freezes whatever it strikes. Her warriors don’t obey her out of ritual respect. They obey because she has never demanded a sacrifice she wasn’t prepared to make herself, and always goes first.

That same unyielding reasoning set her against Ashe, the rival who also claims authority over the Freljord’s scattered tribes. The two warmothers hold sharply different views on how their peoples should endure the cold, and neither has an easy path to a compromise.

Cold as a Weapon

As a Tank suited to the top lane, Sejuani converts the frost into protection. Her passive, Fury of the North, builds Frost Armor once she has been out of combat for a while, granting Armor, Magic Resist, and immunity to slows, and that shield holds on briefly even after she absorbs a hit. Arctic Assault propels her forward, sending enemies flying into the air and halting the moment she reaches a champion, which makes it as useful for disengaging from a bad fight as for opening a good one. Winter’s Wrath brings her mace down twice, with the second, heavier blow dealing most of the damage and layering Frost onto whoever it hits. Melee allies and enemies alike add stacks simply by trading blows close to her. Permafrost turns those stacks against their owner, freezing and stunning any target that has reached the maximum. Glacial Prison, her ultimate, hurls a bola that stuns the first champion it strikes and drops an ice storm that slows everyone else nearby. It hits hardest when teammates are close enough to make use of the stun.

Sejuani’s home is the Freljord, a land she shares, not always peacefully, with allies and rivals alike, including Braum, who withstands the same brutal winters through very different means.