Unpopular opinion I guess: Swain's current kit is garbage and this rework looks solid

Don Spaghetti·1/24/2018, 2:34:44 AM·6 votes·790 views

idk why anyone is talking about current Swain like he's some great champ that isn't toxic design that can just walk into your team at lvl 6 and 1v5 penta with a item 2420

His new kit as depth to his play patterns and looks pretty solid on paper, though I'm going to wait until I see it played on live before I make any decisions on it because PBE is populated by sentient dumpsters.

His W looks incredibly useful early. 22 second cd at rank 1 but with 3500 range it's not hard to keep tabs on the enemy jungler with it if used it properly.

Rest of his kit is solid, probably going to be similar to current Swain where he doesn't really come online until level 6, but the patterns looks much more interesting than just running around with your ult on and pressing e on things until they die.

tl;dr I think this rework is good and I don't understand how people can say his old kit is better. EDIT: Also I like how Riot is keeping with the tradition of making one of the cheap skins look clean as fuck

13 Comments

A Bad Varus1/24/2018, 2:36:20 AM5 votes

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BlueVestGuy1/24/2018, 3:06:42 AM3 votes

dont most people complain because he lost his cane and beatrice? right I guess there's the whole "hand thunder" thing too but w/e

GIJose651/24/2018, 3:19:16 AM1 votes

My only real issue is that the design is a little bit too heavy on the color red

but that is more of a nitpick if anything

SupaDevilJuice1/24/2018, 3:20:57 AM1 votes

He looks visually fine.

What I don't get is any synergy with his kit.

p a t r i o t1/24/2018, 3:22:25 AM1 votes

A literal murder of crows (ravens?) follow swain around the map and land on the terrain. As if that isnt the coolest detail for any champion.

Agomoto1/24/2018, 5:02:32 PM1 votes

Ummmmmmm are you serious how does his kit have depth it's literally good to be QQQQ R at least the other kit you combo'd in your moves like how I want this to be proven wrong all I've seen is that the landing of the root isn't consistent and his w is legit just a far sight cause that never lands and if it does the opponent deserves it.

Agomoto1/24/2018, 5:19:51 PM1 votes

The idea is that but the actuality will be QQQ R and Don speggheti you obviously never played him his ult is the weakest dmg h has it's e+q+w / w+e+q/ q+e poke/ w+e+r if low/ and it wasn't guaranteed q would hit like his does now like it legit takes a third of there life just because they got a bit close at least with his q now it was not a guarantee and it didn't do to much dmg if it wasn't comboed in with e