"Swain Isn't Even His Old Self! >:C"
Wow, what an astute observation! The champion who got REWORKED (Rework- make changes to something, especially in order to make it more up to date.) is DIFFERENT to his old self! News flash everybody!
There's a reason why certain champs can't have their old kits, because they had major flaws whether it be boring gameplay, unhealthy mechanics, or anything inbetween. Here are some examples-
- He can't be his old self, but you probably didn't know that because you never played against him. I got mastery 7 on Urgot before his rework and I can say his old kit was a living hell to play against. You couldn't get close to him at any point and if you're playing a melee champion FORGET ABOUT IT. This rework made him much more healthy in my opinion.
- This one really gets under my skin. The reason Evelynn lost her early game stealth is because it was an unhealthy mechanic. Having Eve gank you level 3 when you've had no chance to get a control ward (unless you started one which you wouldn't) and are slightly pushed up because you shouldn't be in danger of ganks quite yet. She comes from behind you and destroys you and you couldn't do anything about it. Now you have a chance to get control wards and DO something about her ganking you from perma-invis. Also why they increased her detection radius (I think they did that...)
- Yes, this was a pretty major overhaul. But it was needed. Galio's old kit was ridiculously boring. The most exciting thing you could possibly do is flash ult an entire team which, let me tell you, got pretty boring after a while. And his kit was just doomed from the start. His Q, being so slow and easy to dodge, had to do a shit ton of damage or it would be useless. His shield needed to be unique or something so they did that healing thing which was just overpowered. His E was pretty damn useless, but if they increased the speed it would be overpowered. And his ult was just dumb. This version of Galio has more interesting visuals, abilities that can be combo'd for damages, and a much cooler ult IMO.
- Some people are already complaining that "Oh, Swain isn't Swain anymore!" Yeah. Because his current kit is one of the most unhealthy in the game. Crazy AOE and DOT. He's almost like Malzahar! shudders And his ult no longer being toggleable made it so he can't just run into the middle of a team for as long as he wants with a Zhonyas and survive for decades. This is one of my favorite changes Riot has made to a champion in a loooong time. Now some of the criticism is warranted (as with pretty much any rework), I can see the problem with Beatrice pretty much being non-existant in his gameplay and I don't really see the problem with the cane being gone, but that's for Swain mains to worry about.
TL;DR- The reason champions are reworked is because they are unhealthy for the game, can't be balanced with their current kits, or are just outdated. There's a reason they call it a rework.
