Swain WAS in a good spot for early game damage....

Swain is very delicate to mess with. Before the patch, Swain could pull ahead and stay ahead. However, if you exploited ANY of Swain's weaknesses, he pulls behind and stays there.

This was pretty healthy, player skill is relied on for how effective the champion can be. Not just yours either, also your opponents.

At this point I have no idea what skill to max anymore, all his skills are all equally garbage.

Some of the changes were nice. The Q damage to every fourth second was good, and the ravens spawning every .2 seconds with the 1 second delay per target was good, but the consecutive changes killed him.

That .25 seconds on his ult for channeling hurts. If I'm supposed to max W last like a normal swain, that means I have exactly .75 of a second to do what I want with the target. Which means I'll just be throwing pillows at him with this awful damage.

The Q radius is way too small, the point of it having a slow and starting from YOU gives it a bigger range, they are trying to get away from YOU and you can keep them there. You effectively cut the leash range in half with the terrible radius. Also REALLY? DOUBLE COOLDOWN? I don't think any none reworked ability has ever had a change that severe.

All of these changes need to happen now: Revert to root change back. All other champions have a longer form of much better CC, theres no reason for swain to have a lack of it now.

Ult channel removed

Put the damage back on E, and if you want to revert the 20% at all ranks damage bonus. That was unneeded.

Buff the damage on Q

and revert the minion healing nerf on his ult.

Swain effectively has gone from "Pull ahead and stay ahead" to "You will never do any form of damage, ever." With these changes, you will never keep an enemy in place to harm them enough, let alone do all of your planned damage.

I cant even speak, you effectively KILLED my favorite champion. He's the first champion I can actually call "Garbage."