Swain Small Buff

Phantaśmat··2 votes·1,027 views

Hello, I'm a Swain lover, and i think he is not in a very good spot this meta, so let me go straight to my thoughts about buffing him :- 1- Demon Flare ( The second Part of His ultimate ability. ) should be cast automatically Upon death, Swain suffers against constant CC, and sometimes he can't Do anything at all due to his lack of mobility too. so if it casts upon death at least he can have a bit bigger impact in team fights.

2- Reduce the cooldown of his Q ( Death's Hand ) by 1 second per rank, Kiting with Swain has become so hard, especially that his build doesn't provide too much cooldown reduction to enable him to spam Q, taking Transendance, cosmic insight and offense CDR might help a bit but that would weaken his laning phase ability to bully the laner with some nice chunks of damage.

So the change would give Swain a better kiting with slightly lower cooldown on Q, and make him more effective in team fights due to his lack of mobility and CC problems with the automatic Demon Flare Cast Upon death.

5 Comments

MrEnds1 votes

personally: I think hes in a great spot atm i play him a bit rn and he feels very balanced with many counters and many good matchups FYI: you can 1v5 late game if u play it right aswell just because of how much health u get from ur passive and ult. (plus u deal decent damage) hes also not supposed to be an early game champ with lane bully potential hes supposed to just hit abilities and stack his passive so he can do alot later in the game, hes a scaling champ. also in teamfights ur supposed to get into the middle of the fight ult and then when u get low you use zhonya's hour glass and u heal alot of ur hp and then after ur zhonyas finishes just cast the second part of ur ult.

Phantaśmat1 votes

The last thing you said was exactly why i want his R to automatically cast, sometimes you get so hard cc'ed since you are kind of a front liner and you don't even get the chance to cast zhonya, so if you can't cast anything, not even use zhonya, at least make the ult automatically release the burst.

MrEnds1 votes

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The last thing you said was exactly why i want his R to automatically cast, sometimes you get so hard cc'ed since you are kind of a front liner and you don't even get the chance to cast zhonya, so if you can't cast anything, not even use zhonya, at least make the ult automatically release the burst.

zhonyas can be casted while rooted and the only way u cant is if ur perma stunned which doesnt happen often

Xavanic1 votes

Swain is in a weird spot rn, he's good, but he kinda just goes anywhere atm, i personally enjoy playing him bot with a CC supp as it allows me to proc my passive more often

Velasan1 votes

He is strong support right now just not so much top and mid where he was intended to be. Would imagine that has a lot to do with the popular ADC's and a lot of people running damage supports.

He probably wouldn't be so strong vs say an Alistair or Leona. Neither are popular right now is the thing.

IMO I would rather he didn't have demon flare. I would much prefer his regular ult just did more damage and drained more and not explode at the end at all. It tempts people to use the ult only for the nuke, and Swains ult is one of the most unique things about him so turning it into a generic nuke seems pointless. Or get the Morgana treatment and get move speed towards enemies he is draining.

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