Anivia Brand and Swain all deserved a nerf

There. I said it. But for the love of god what is wrong with all of you? Brand's getting his mana costs hit, not by much, on 1 ability. Anivia's timing windows are getting trimmed. Swain's getting his root turned into a duration-scaler.

First of all: -Should brand be able to spam W carelessly? No. -Can he as of live? Kinda. -Is the mana cost nerf too big to turn this into an ability he cannot afford to miss? No. Brand's nerf is fair.

Second: -Are Anivia's timing windows too big? Not really -Are they too small? Definitely not -Will this only effect Anivia relative to the player's ability? Yes Anivia's nerf is fair.

Lastly: -Is Swain's early level Nevermore duration too long? Meh -Is a shorter root going to stop him from being able to use his abilities? Unlikely, again is relative to player skill -Is the level 2/3-13 time period too long for a shorter root to hurt Swain too much? No Swain's nerf is probably the only one that's even mildy questionable, and even then there's not really too much of an issue with it, if there is, it can always get Elised and bumped up at earlier levels.

With that of the way why are you up in arms over this? I don't deny it's pretty sad that Riot jumps on these 3 near instantaneously, but watches Mr Egghead-no-risk be not-not-meta forever and 5 days, and Yasuo rip things apart only to give us the good ole "We're keeping an eye on them". But does that make these nerfs unwarranted? Does these champion's pick rates make these nerfs unwarranted?

Here's what I think about these 3, and I won't lie, I've played a bit of Brand and Anivia, and haven't willingly played swain, but here's my experience from vsing them

Brand: Stun is too long early levels considering e is targeted and instant (I'd be 100% OK with 1.5 seconds-2, or even 2.25 from lvl 1-5)

Anivia: Un-assassinateable, must be poked down or 3+v1 dove. Obnoxious crit damage and waveclear, moreso than probably needed even if it's her gimmick (kinda biased? I never fail to struggle to put this bird to the ground, and maybe if i only played 3 champions it'd be unreasonable to use this, but I've tried at least 7-8 of my main picks against her, nothing is easier than the rest offensively, the only differences are defensively)

Swain: How am I supposed to kill you? (Legit like.... I've only done this on yasuo, likely because no resource to worry about)

I think a lot of you are getting upset not because it upsets you, but because you think it should. But whatever, sheep will be sheep, I would know I'm from New Zealand.