First game impressions of Swain

He looks nice, his animations are clean and I can see ravens flocking around the map. Visually 10/10

BUT....

His gameplay feels clunky A F. His q never feels like it does enough damage unless you point blank it, and while that would be fine, if you are against melee champs, you have no consistent way of disengaging from them. With your W taking a full 2 secs to just get a slow off, and your e acting as an ekko q that disappears on the first target hit, you don't have any choice in a fight but to try to blow up your opponent and die. And with his ult being so weak early on, especially in 1v1 fights, where it takes almost the full channel to be able to pop it, it feels like a shoddy renekton ult at best.

Now, i can think of a few changes off the top of my head that could help him out.

1. Make his W activate faster the closer it is to him. It allows him to have counterplay if he is trying to help across the map, as well has gives him more reliability when the fights are close and personal.

2. Make his q deal bonus damage to minions, or make it deal bonus damage to minions, but have it be reduced for every minion that it successfully pierces through. His waveclear is so awkward for someone who's only hard cc is blocked by minions so hard.

3. Allow him to recast e or at the very least make it pop when it hits its first champion, rather than first enemy hit. Champions need some sort of reliability in their kits, especially close range mages like swain

4. Allow him to pop his ult earlier for significantly reduced damage. If you aren't going to let him be a healing machine like he was, at least allow him to have some burst without waiting 10 secs in a 1v1 fight