I still miss Swain

It's been a long while since his rework, and I still mourn for the old Swain. The real DoT mage, the swagger old man who withers you down. He has no burst (except maybe his Nevermove), he has no assassinations, he just has his bird and His Bird. He was my boy. Zoning potential was incredible, there weren't any weird mechanics. There wasn't any double-gating on his ultimate (5 soul shards for max damage + cooldown). There was no Lucius Malfoy visuals. He was himself. I miss that Swain. I wouldn't miss this Swain. This Swain that doesn't have a keystone that matches him, this Swain that still hasn't found a comfortable lane. This Swain that suffers so much he has under a 1% pickrate. I don't mean to throw statistics around, I'd have made this post regardless, but I felt like looking him up on champion.gg just to see how he was doing.

I miss the old Swain. "If we approach from the left flank, we can.. Oh, let's just morph into a gigantic bird and eat them."