Swain in Season 6

RisenDarkKnight·11/10/2015, 6:59:49 AM·5 votes·2,062 views

I enjoy playing Swain and he's the first champion I achieved level 5 mastery with. However, season 6 is not looking good for him.

Firstly there's the 800 gold executioner's calling that ad champs can buy against him.

Next his two core items (item 3027 and item 3157 ) both got increased in price so just getting those two core items costs 800 gold more. Also Zhonyas has less armor as well. This is especially a problem since Swain is dead last in cs for mid laners.
(http://champion.gg/champion/Swain/Middle). Champion.gg only looks at plat and above players too, so I'm not just bad at csing with him, his kit literally is just bad at farming/waveclear. He's 3rd to last in gold income because of this. Sure you'll get some gold from rift herald/global bounties and passive gold, but not 800 by when he'd normally complete zhonyas. And since ROA costs more it's also going to be a minute later before he gets all 10 stacks of its passive.

I hope Riot gives Swain some love (and maybe Dragonmaster Swain?).

2 Comments

Korillo11/10/2015, 2:15:25 PM3 votes

The life of an AP champion is gonna be rough next season. I main Vlad & Lissandra so i feel your pain.