So after playing a game with Swain just now, it's come to my attention just how weak the leader of Noxus is compared to pretty much everyone right now. His cooldowns are enormous, he can't clear waves at all, His sustain is nice, but really thats all he has going for him compared to all these newer champs and reworked champs. Is Swain gonna change any soon Rito? I feel like he needs it.
Swain is tanky control mage. His point is to just wade into the middle of a team fight with his R along with rylais and just slow/sap health from everyone. With a build along the lines of ROA/Rylais/Zhonya's/Liandries and maybe, if you're doing extremely good, a death cap for extra damage, if not, usually a defensive item. If you use him correctly he can do a lot of damage and provide a decent amount of CC when he lands nevermove on multiple targets due to rylais slow.
Right now he is in sort of a weak spot due to Riot trying to speed games up. He needs 2-3 items to do his thing and usually by that time the game is already snowballed to one side or the other. But if he gets a chance to do his thing he can put out lots of damage. Like anivia/viegar he needs time to scale up into being scary. He doesn't start scary.
