Swains scaling mana cost and ability costs are completely detrimental to his gameplay.

I have been a long time Swain player and back in the day when his ulti and healing were stronger i definitely felt like the scaling mana cost was a fair thing. However now in an age where most mids have reasonable costs to their spells Swain is on the opposite side with an ultimate that forces you to build completely and utterly around it.

I don't mean that lightly.

Even with his passive and proper last hitting his ultimate will undo minutes of work in seconds by just having it on at all. Not only that but the primary time to use it is when you are being attacked or are attacking and because of the scaling mana cost having it on means you focus less and less on playing and more and more on micromanaging your Mana.

That doesn't even factor in the fact that he has the highest mana cost base skills in the game with Decrepify at 100 mana and Nevermove at 120 at max rank with Torment at 85 mana.

I feel like Swain should lose the scaling mana and have the rest of his mana costs reduced considering all his damage is Over time and he has to be incredibly close to do it unlike brand (who btw is doing excellent right now).

TLDR : Swain's mana costs are too high specifically his ultimates scaling mana cost for how much risk he has to deal with and the fact that his damage is over time and not upfront bursty.

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Malzahar has the highest base mana costs in the game, 100+ on every skill, 430 in total.

You are correct but Malz's E pretty much makes that a moot point since he can drop it in a wave kill a few minions and nearly get the mana cost back making the ACTUAL mana cost far less than what it is.