All Hail Swain, Noxian Grand...Support?

Having played a fair amount of the rework at mid, top, and support, I absolutely believe that new 's best position is actually as a support.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not expecting to see him in LCS anytime soon. It's utterly unlikely that a pro team would take him over an unkillable minotaur, team-invulnerizing fashion plate, spell-shielding necro-witch, gigantifying pixie, yanking-through-walls-robot, champion-swallowing catfish, stealing-to-safety undead chain-rattler and so on. He has no ability at all to protect or save his ADC, and thus is almost certainly not going to be a pro support.

However, speaking of - does have the same ability to make space in the botlane very, very uncomfortable for the enemy duo. Most of us have experienced the way that our undead reaper dominates any reasonably won botlane via his ability to run ahead of the wave and make the enemy champions unable to farm through fear of a landed Death Sentence. Well, new Nevermove can even do that through the wave at the beginning of the game, and while a successful Nevermove certainly doesn't inspire the same terror as a landed chain, it's much, much easier to hit, and heals as well. And Vision of Empire - so terrible, mana-costly, and easy-to-dodge in any solo lane - excels in botlane as a zoning tool, source of vision, and long-range blaster on fleeing or recalling enemy champions.

Again, don't get me wrong. No actual protection abilities mean that he's probably not going to be a real, pro-level support. (Then again, can't protect his ADC either, and still sees pro-level play.)

In any case, in solo queue, support is definitely the position feels least underpowered in. It makes a curious kind of sense, since his waveclear was nerfed to pieces, but when he supports that doesn't really matter at all.

I could see him as a pocket pick against certain squishy botlanes, or in a team composition that could use an extra source of damage in the support position.

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Kind of a botch on the thematics, though.

The Noxian Grand General! One of the most brilliant military minds of Runeterra! A man without fear!

...currently to be found scampering around botlane, polishing 's axes .

[sg-janna]

Oh, well.