I am pretty sure that Riot don't even remember that Swain exists, but at least do something for him. A new item that appliest grievous wounds on every hit will just destroy him. Removal of Mana pots will also pretty much hurt him due to the huge mana cost on his ult.
Also where is the new splash art that we were promised?
Edit: I also forgot about the zhonya's nerf. Oh well.
Well, those GW will destroy many more champs too. And it makes me sad. But I guess it will go like any other big meta change: Adapt or die
like it that there is finnaly something where swain cant 1vs 5 by using ult and zhonyas
He is way too mana hungry he needs to have that fixed that is like my only problem going top lane with him cause I can't farm or push hard unless I use abilties but they really don't do much anyway.
Eh. GW is being nerfed down to 40% and the loss of 20 AP on Zhonya's is being put back onto RoA. Gold costs are all going up, but ambient gold is being increase on top of starting gold increased by about 1 per 10s, so 6 per minute and blue buff gives a small AP boost on top of the mana regen, plus the new flasks will make up for the mana pots on top of him having about 50 more base mana. Considering he gets 10 mana per minion kill, his mana problems early on won't be too bad. R will always be a pain, but less so.
Honestly though, the only thing Swain actually will have a problem with is if his enemy is AD and get an early executioner, but even then in lane, he can typically bully most AD champs out of mid and top on top of most of them not wanting to use that gold on item that doesn't build into anything useful until mid to late game. Normally a LW is good at all points of the game, but if Swain only has 54 bonus (45 from Zhonya's, 9 from runes), the at 40-47%, they'd only be ignoring about 20 or so of it, which for that, they can get a Youmuu's! lol.
