Swain ideas (animations)
The main idea is by involving swains raven more in his attack animations, his "raven" imagery would be significantly more interesting. Like all champions, swain has 4 abilities, and passive, and a basic attack. Though his abilities do include raven esc textures and sounds, Out of all his abilities, only his R (ravenous flock) and his q (decrepify) actually involve his dank as fuck raven. Kind of a waste amirite??? So heres some ideas:
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As for his basic attack, i think it would be awesome to have his raven fly off his shoulder and strike his opponent, rather than just throwing weird magic balls everywhere. It would also make more sense regarding his passive (carrion renewal) in which the idea is that swains raven feeds on the flesh of the minions, regaining mana through its nutrients. I don't see how swains raven gets mana out of watching him throw magic balls at shit, and DONT YOU DARE SAY "oh cause he's magic".
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As for his W (Nevermove), i don't really see how his raven could be involved in this animation so unless you have any other ideas I'm cool with it just staying how it is.
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About his his E (Torment), I was thinking maybe you could have swains raven slowly circle around the target, maybe trailing some sort of colored texture behind, kind of like Fiddlesticks's e (Dark Wind). Another idea i has was to have swains raven claw at the target enemy champion for the duration of the ability (4 seconds)
Additional ideas: Swain support?!?
- Due to a certain asshole auto locking katarina in a ranked game, i had to be the better man and play swain support, (seriously though whats with Kat mains these days smh) which actually ended up working quite well (probably just cause I'm amazing
). Anway i noticed that swains q had a nice slow, and his w locked down the target quite well, but it was his E (Torment) which was lacking some sort of supportive quality. To fill this gap, and just to add some diversity to swains kit, my idea was to add the option of casting his E (Torment) on an allied champion. "What?? Why would you want to torment your ally? thats so fucking stupid!!" you say? well, let me FUCKING FINISH MY SCENTENCE YOU FAT %%%%- i mean, um... uh.. anyway if cast on his allies his E (Torment) would heal the targeted ally champion over a brief period of time. I main Swain mid so thats none of my concern anyway ;D
Hope you liked mai ideas!!!! and if you didn't you can't go suck a
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LEL