Swain's state

dEAdbUs·11/22/2016, 4:21:30 AM·1 votes·751 views

Hello everyone! I have to say that 6th season's changes killed Swain. He's unplayable above Plat tier, and was gutted because Riot made him too good with coordinated team (mostly Challenger and pro tournaments), while he wasn't really that cool as solo champion. Even when he finally hit 50% winrate, Riot kept nerfing him. But why did this happen? It's result of rework. I remember how designer was excited about changes he made, but in result it leaded to even less balanceble state of the champion. So, Riot had no other way than nerf Swain to the ground. Now Swain feels ok in low elo and sucks in high.

Can you, Riots say something about Swain? Do you have any thoughts how are you going to solve problems of this champion? Personally I was ok about Swain as rare pick for hardcore mains, at least Swain fans had their fun. It was pure pleasure to see how they were controlling their ult timing and were outplaying whole teams alone! It wasn't burst lightspeed outplaying like LB was able to do, but slow dance around and between enemies. So sad we lost that aspect of game.

10 Comments

dakota saturn11/22/2016, 4:24:45 AM1 votes

Swain's state is Texas.

xJLx MCHammer11/22/2016, 4:24:58 AM1 votes

Game is all about burst.

Swain is the a Timex watch in a digital age. He is still stuck in the sustain damage when ADC required more than 5 hits to 100-0. He literally gets kited by any ADC except vayne who will outright kill him by standing still. Other mages tend to burst him before he can out sustain them. Bruisers ignore him and tanks laugh at his pathetic dmg

God Raijin11/22/2016, 4:30:52 AM1 votes

Well I'm just going off data here, maybe not TODAY, but in the last 7 days Swain's overall Winrate in Diamond is 55.3% So idk what cha been smoking but he seems fine. http://na.op.gg/statistics/champion

Also In master in the last 7 days he has a 58.3% win

Meat Feast11/22/2016, 4:41:37 AM1 votes

Agreed, Swain isn't what he used to be. Riot does this with every champ at some point and keeps them in the scraps in order to keep the meta fresh, don't expect good reasoning for it. Now it's Anivia's turn.

Calabok11/22/2016, 4:42:49 AM1 votes

Swain's state is Rhode Island

Calabok11/22/2016, 5:36:22 AM1 votes

waay too high of winrate. better nerf Swain.