Out of curiosity, what are Swain's weaknesses?
I'm not saying he's op or anything. I just hope that maybe a swain main or player can clarify how to beat him other than ganking.
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0 mobility mediocre range low burst poor waveclear prone to mana issues vulnerable to Grievous Wounds long CDs early
Extremely boring. The player playing him is in constant danger of dying to boredom.
Between his 3rd and 4th Rod of ages he has a weak spot. Abuse this! If you don't, you lose!
he is weak against burst
Swain has lowest in class wave clear. Not only is he the mid champion with the lowest wave clear, he takes home the trophy for mages as well. Pick a sieging champion with range and waveclear who builds Morellonomicon, like Ziggs or Viktor.
He's mana hungry, for one.
Lack of mobility and lack of range are the two main things that come to mind.
Really, the best thing you can do, is burst the daylights out of him, get a morellonomicon as a first/second item if you can, because if you can stop his R sustain, you can beat him.
- weak wave clear - shove the wave, make him use his abilities and mana to wave clear and farm
- mana issues and ult cd - once his ult is activated you disengage and wait for him to turn it off after which u have a 7 second window to fight him while he cant use ult
- weak to high range, champs that can poke him from safety, tho thats a risky method
- not engaging while marked with his E
Immobile and his early game is relatively weak. He also has high mana costs
If you let swain get fed though your 'counterplay' options basically disappear.
No wave clear and weak last hitting under tower. Just shove him in.
burst dmg doesn't let him heal in time, also early game he can't wave clear so if you don't stand inside the minion wave he'll go oom tryng to cs. When he tries to take a minion using his W he'll lose a lot of mana, when he tries to take a minion auto-attacking you should punish him.
If he's not a god he'll lose 300 gold of farm just by doing that
His cool downs. If you see the bird gun just get out of it, walk back in immediately after it stops. He has nothing really to defend himself but his slow and his snare. One of which has a 15+ second cool down. I'd honestly just pick an assassin into him, get him to burn flash, and all in at lvl 6 with ult + ignite.
(insert poke mage here) 
don't get to late game
Push the wave and your good syndra can woop hhis ass easy
Low range
he has poor range, he doesnt do much damage, hes easy to avoid.
His early game is fairly weak, especially pre 6. I personally find him harder to farm with than most, because none of his abilities are built around farming, and his aa's are extremely weak. I'd say shut him down before 6 and keep pressure on him most of the game, though when he's 6 and has a blue buff then fml runaway. :P
other then that
abuse his long early cooldowns
his mana bar drops quickly in long fights where nobody dies
tanks tanks tanks
Almost 0 wave clear, very bad at farming and farming under tower, if you out range him he can't do much of anything, no mobility, etc.
More specifically top lane swain? When I'm a melee and I'm up against one, I can barely touch him and by level 2 he has me at half health.
Disengage. The entire team needs to back off when he pops his ultimate. Re-engage before it comes back up and burst him down quickly.
I can't do this - I am a scrub - but it seems like an easy enough thing on paper.