Swain's Q currently does 3 ticks of damage over 3 seconds, his E does 4 ticks over 4 seconds. It would be nice if it got a update to damage sort of like 
Morgana's W. The ticks of damage should occur more like every .5 seconds considering Swain is a DoT mage. This small QoL change would help make his damage more reliable and noticeable. I don't play 
Malzahar, but I think his W and E are in the same boat. Most older champs who deal DoT.
lol, i don't see why this matters too much though. swain isn't used much anymore. his Q though has a flaw where if you go to far away, and its not that big of range, it just stops... its not too powerful. especially at first. besides. wait until they get new awesome skins that make people play these guys more to have better effect. a good amount of people don't even care for swain anymore which is sad cause he is fun to play.
Honestly, what's the point of this at all? This would actually lower damage because it would be more ticks to be reduced by MR, and aside from that it does......what? Makes you feel a bit better because you see more smaller numbers instead of fewer bigger ones?
These are the kind of buffs though that help champions who should be picked up. It's not a big change, but as a Swain player, it would really help with better readability and sustained damage.
On the E the damage stays the exact same and the only benefit I can think of is that you might kill someone 0.5 seconds earlier. Morgana pool needs the higher tick rate because it's dodgable while already in effect, which is why it would be a good change on the laserbird but unnecessary on his other DoT.
Swain isn't about the DoT on his E, believe it or not. And there is literally no reason to change it. It's excessively powerful, and it's not like you can dodge it after it's on you.
As for swain's lazarbird, quite frankly I use it for a free peel/auto kite more than I do the damage. I mean, I'm already a raid boss late game, I only need the damage mid game, and that is when I'm trying to get squishies that will die to my E+W+ a crow or two from my ult.
It's not like S1 or 2 anymore, where people would force you to be concerned about your DPS due to mr being litterally everywhere.
I don´t think that´s necessary...it´s just the essence of what swain is - stay in his range for too long and he´ll drain you down, kite him and he´ll be a crippled old man. So for the q I think it´s very crucial that the ticks don´t come to often, and for the e i don´t think it would make much of a difference.
His q could use some sort of update as you rarely get all three ticks off and it's range is awful but I must diagree with E. It is his main spell and is excellent in lane for poking.
