Swain Ulted at half health and Used Hourglass.
Proceeded to fully heal while damaging everyone around and picking up two kills.
If you go into stasis you should not be allowed to deal damage, same goes for Karthus and Fiddles.
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have you tried walking away
"Riot must have forgotten that they designed champions that can do this with an item!"
No, they know that Swain can use Zhonya's and his ultimate to get some sustain. Zhonya's existed before Swain, so they designed him with that in mind. The fact that he can do this should imply that they wanted him to be able to do this. They wanted this to be one of his playstyle options.
Here's the problem: you didn't think to walk away.
You cannot cast or channel while in stasis, however if you have an ability you can activate which goes on passively, like Swain's ult/mundo W/Karthus W/Fiddle ult, it continues through stasis
Damage is fine, the problem is being able to heal.
Bro, it's called strategy; if swain goes into zhonyas, back off and wait till he comes out. You are not powerless to stop that.
He might've also had a Spirit Visage, that practically makes every piece of damage heal himself, instead of 75% from champs. Also if he was able to hit enough champs to Zhoyna's and heal himself then he was in brilliant positioning and you have nothing but your team to blame.
Removing passive effects from Zhoynas is dumb. Not enough people actually have Zhoyna synergy effects. Like you said, this would mean Morg, Karthus, Fiddles and Swain. Literally four people use this item for actual gameplay advantages instead of just defense.
If you go into stasis you should not be allowed to deal damage, same goes for Karthus and Fiddles.
Look at it this way:
Swain's optimal strategy as an AoE champion is to throw himself into the middle of 5 enemy champions, and proceed to deal sustained damage to them.
It's quite possibly the dumbest strategy imaginable, even for a champion that actually scales well building full-tank.
Enter 
, encouraging mages to be interesting.
Also - the burst of defense offers for bursty champions is essentially the AP equivalent of the in-combat sustain life steal offers to sustained damage champions.