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Swain Main Train Gain Pain.

Eclipse Leona·4/21/2016, 7:46:09 AM·2 votes·685 views

So, I have been playing Swain for a week now and he's a very fun champ to play and I wanted to ask, does anyone have any tips on him? I've had a couple of matches that went good and some that went bad to "friggin' tilting" against Malphite / Vladimir was alright, but against Lux and Cass it was annoying, I know cass is Swain's counter, but that aside whenever I engage they always seem to survive with 50-100hp. I'm also wondering what build is best, I'm using one from Mobafire (http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/art-of-war-an-in-depth-swain-guide-season-6-212604) and I've come up with " my own" just a simple tank one.

  • Seraph's Embrace
  • Zhonya's Hourglass
  • Randuin's Omen
  • Spirit Visage
  • Warmog's Armour/Heart
  • Sorcerer's Shoes.

that should give me around 260AP, 200 armor and 120 mr and 3800hp

while the build on Moba is focused on AP (Duh he's a mage) I wonder if " my build " is of any use, Any Swain train mains who can help me out?

8 Comments

Zane Zephyr4/21/2016, 7:50:10 AM1 votes

I like Rod, Zhonyas, rylais, Morello/chalice, Abyssal scepter deathcap and WoTA

KirbyCake4/21/2016, 9:43:40 AM1 votes

Tear is too slow, his powerspike is already level 6 and tear doesn't support that. ROA is much better, gives hp and mp and ap much earlier.

Abyssal sceptar is better than spirit visage to me, just because of the wave clear, but it's fine if you want to go a bit tankier.

Doing more damage is being tankier, so really it's about trying to not be squishy enough to get 1 shotted and surviving long enough to sustain.

painapple4/21/2016, 10:12:16 AM1 votes

item 3027 item 3151 item 3020 And don't forget the deathfire touch keystone. E Q once you've finished Liandry's will deal 70% of an adc's health.

Consider item 3116 item 3001 item 3089 next. If your team absolutely needs someone to engage item 3157 summoner 4 into a Nevermove will usually do provided you can land it on at least 3 people. The reason I don't really recommend Zhonya's as part of the reglar build is because I find it to be useless if you can position appropriately and make full use of swain's natural survivability.

But if you are hellbent on going tank Swain (for whatever reason) absolutely always grab item 3151 item 3116 and make sure you have a source of decent magic penetration in your build.