ok, i get it. so for something to be a weakness it has to be new, right? and it has to be unique, so having no mobility isn't a weakness. i never said swain has it bad, i said he has obvious weaknesses. as for the ganking, im not just referring to when you dont ward either. it's not hard for a jungler to clear your wards, or for you to be placed against guys with the mobility such that they can still catch you, or heck the jungle could even just come up the side rather than in the bush. yes, csing gets easy with time, but for all of lane phase his farming is either really slow or costs a ton of mana. i think its very clear now that the whole of your experience with swain consists of a couple bad games against one.
honestly, tear on swain isn't a good pick because by the time you get it stacked its pretty late in the game anyways, plus archangels staff is pretty expensive and the money would be better spent on a zhonyas and just playing carefully with your mana. that being said, his ult starts to eat up a ton of mana pretty fast, so if you have your ult on for more than a few seconds any time before level 12 or so you lose a massive chunk of your mana. having his e do good damage is A) not entirely true and B) doesnt make him good against every champ. A) it only does good damage if you can follow up with attacks, otherwise the damage is fairly minimal, and B) just because his e makes him deal good damage when you attack afterwards doesnt make him good against everyone. that doesnt make any sense. what about all the champs that out range him? what about those that excel at fighting? what about those who can retaliate with abilities just as strong or stronger? as for your skillshot point, you're kinda proving my point there. his w is not hard to dodge and dodging it negates a MASSIVE portion of his power, especially his escaping power. and no, not all champs are vulnerable to cc, and some are much more vulnerable to cc than others. swain is one of those (and i never said in any way whatsoever that it effects only swain).
his w is like chogath's q, which is why it should be obvious just how easy it is to avoid. also, to be able to q them to slow them they would have to be close enough for you to cast q, which is pretty close when you take swain's speed into consideration.
yes, swain excels in teamfights, i was not missing that. HOWEVER, thats only if the enemy team lets him by either getting him really fed in some way, or by entirely ignoring him during the fights. if you focus him or even just cc him with anything but a slow you can reduce his effectiveness in teamfights enormously. he is NOT guaranteed to land his w in a teamfight, just more likely IF they are densely grouped. otherwise the chances are not much higher than lane phase. you also seem to be way overestimating his damage and tankiness. first of all, unless hes godly fed or you're all incredibly behind he wont be able to kill your team just by ulting into you. first of all, he would die before then (again, unless in one of those situations) if you bother to attack him, and second you would go oom before you killed them all even if you had a seraphs. you seem to be under the impression that the guy who mains swain wouldnt know this and that you would.
because that guy has Q and E to make up for it.
and 
: Anything You (
) can be, I can be Greater!
got them even better.
D:
