ways to repair swain
1st so you know where im coming from and my experience playing him. i have mained swain for 2-3 years this season i had a 65-70% win rate using him in my elo. no im not master or diamond but against similar skilled players i was really strong with him and ever since these changes i win one out of 7 games with him and have lost rank trying to make him work.
As everyone who plays swain or is used to fighting against swain knows that the recent patch kinda broke swains back. his damage is nearly cut in half and with his E change his ability path is different.
swain used to max out E and use it as his main harass tool. made even better by death fires touch but now there is no reason to get more then one point into it. His Q is now extremely easy to avoid and the damage on his W got reduced the only up side is the mana drain on his ult. he just isnt swain anymore.
so some things that can bring bird man back and not all needed to be done but some.
**Pecking order **has GOT to go. his birds not being able to hit the same target for 1 second is devastating. in both laning phase and his ability to team fight. sure now he has 5 birds but in a team fight with no minions around every other second his ult is doing nothing, not damaging and not healing him
His Q. is toooo easy to avoid the area that it inhabits is just to small. just side step it and get back to fighting swain and you negated a lot of his damage. Im down for being able to toss Beatrice out but she needs to be some type of threat not something u just ignore if you take two steps to the left. I also think if we are keeping this kind of Q that how it works also needs to change. either it does more damage the longer you get his by it OR the slow increases the longer you get hit by it kinda like wither.
His W sigh his W never move?? now with the Q change its more like never land on anyone. the time to active should be more along the lines of brands W reduced slightly. how it is now yous not hard to walk out of before u get hit and if you get boots of speed you will never land it.
The flat scale on his E i guess is fine it just changes how ability order but not sure if its a glitch but it does not apply on hit effects which is the biggest part of his E. E and death fire touch was godly
the worst part of all this is the items that are core on him all got a stat adjustments while at the same time his damage also got reduced so his over all damage out put got hit twice. core items like
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which may not have been core but sure was nice.