I am the only one that feels Swain is not playable at top and mid? Is normal that a champion who is designed for top lane and mid to be support? When they reworked him he was good after of tons nerfs on his CD and dmg now he's a support... And he supposed to be late game champion... The build is scaling but he is not scaling . What do you think guys he needs rework or buff or he's good right now?
He's definitely unplayable top / mid. Too much power built into his ulti means he's basically a minion without it.
Rework feels awful now, I used to play Swain but now when I picked him last time I was just laughing at how pathetic his damage is.
Swain just lacks any meaningfull scalings AND skillexpression! The difference between 2-0 and 0-2 is so mindblowingly small.
All you do with Items on him is feeding the stat-check! You don't build AP or Tank or Mana to fullfill a certain role, you just build what ever gives you the most stats at the time to walk over your opponent whenever you have R. If you can't you're absolutely useless. If you can there's ZERO counterplay! Obiously he nneds to be balanced witht hat in mind...
Old Swain was so much more interesting to play... his low range made him counterable but if you managed to get/bait an opponent into your deathzone of Beatrice/Ult/W you could win every fight! Both his Ult and his Manapool (extreme costs but also extreme regen) made him an unique Champion like no other on the rift!
