While that's true, the other 2 paths are both terrible against Cleanse Seraph (unless they are brokenly strong against other Seraphs). Shards don't decay from what we've heard of the current build, they're the champs sole source of damage, and I wouldn't be surpsied if fighting Seraph with Cleanse makes the difference between having 100+ stacks and having like 15 stacks (due to constant halving, and of course this assumes a spell and draw heavy deck maximizing usage of the champion), which for the other paths is a massive run killer. I suppose picking the Titanchannel variant is good against Cleanse, but only pure Titanchannel, and on runs where you have to fight Cleanse Seraph and have to pick one of the other variants you're sorta screwed either way.