This swain rework is a complete abomination to both swains lore and gameplay

Lorewise, not even the same champion obviously. His lore is one of the reasons i chose to main him. Just because his lore doesn't fit his gameplay style 100% still makes it a better fit. He has super long cooldowns early so every time he casts an ability is more meaningful than other champions that spam. He has no mobility and requires better positioning than most champions and despite his ult being considered braindead you still need to learn when to turn it off and not turn it off and not fight when its off.

Gameplay wise, all I have to ask is why does swain need a rework at all? In fact the problem with swain is that he has TOO much counterplay. He has super long windows to punish him due to his long cooldowns. His snare has a super long delay and avoiding his snare avoids at least 50% of his damage. MR items hard counter him since he will go oom before killing tanks. If you're really bad just buy grevious wounds. His win rate has been garbage ever since the new runes came out.

If anything vlad needs a rework due to his kit that actually has no counterplay. He is legitimately just a better version of swain yet swain is getting a rework instead of vlad who is so broken that he is being played competitively.

I would honestly rather have swain in his garbage state than reworked and be op so I can at least enjoy the champion. If I wanted to abuse broken champions I would have mained vlad already.