Pitching an idea: Swain Support

Hibeki··2 votes·1,107 views

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm just pitching an idea for now.

Swain has good zoning tools. His Q means people are going to get out of that area as fast as possible and its pretty spammable.

The damage application is so quick you can get thunderlords and all your frostfang charges off in a split second.

Simply the fact that swain exists is providing peel to your carry, left unchecked this guy will fuck up your backline, meaning the pressing threat of swain will either lead to a double kill for him, or a double kill for your carry.

His disengage is...ok. The slow from Q is pretty good and the root from W is alright. However he has really good all in engage.

Frost Queens claim can be used so that they aren't getting away from him.

Downsides? Hes gonna get thrashed by a hard disengage support like thresh or nami. Hes also not gonna make good use of his passive.

For the build path, I was thinking the starting item, into chalice, into frost queens, and into rylais.

Thoughts?

3 Comments

BuzzinTate1 votes

As far as I've seen I've never lost against swain support when it did happen. Root is too predictable and he ends up just being a proxy mage with little to no influence pre 6 and high mana costs since he's not getting the gold he needs unless he steals kills.

KirbyCake1 votes

his all in engage is already non-existant in a solo lane considering that his q barely slows and his w has the longest delay in the game

LadyRenly1 votes

Swain fails the same way Yorick does as support; useless against Caitlyn Ezreal Graves Kalista Kindred Lucian Sivir Tristana Vayne

At that rate, don't even bother unless you are last pick.Tbh, you'd be better off going veigar support

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