Swain might have chance to be release in december. PBE in Dec while his live is in Jan 2018
Here me out for a bit! I know you would protest this but i think swain might have a chance to be put in PBE this december(late december) and might release in January. 2018 is fast approaching and we're 3 more patches to go before patch 8.1 arrives ( Assuming, 7.23 is nov 22. 7.24 is dec 6 and 7.25 is in 20 which means jan 3 is 8.1 and jan 17 8.2 (this one is pretty close to the start of season 8 though, just a head by one day being jan 16 2018). So my proposal is,like evelynn who came in pbe in late september and then arrives its live in early october. Like her ,this will be the case of our lovable tactician SWAIN. He will arrive days in PBE (like how it used to be as always) before patch 7.25 and will be release at january 03, 2018 which in my theory is patch 8.1. And december is swain's 6 month in production making him reasonable to be live.
This will be a nice present for us swain fans though. a nice christmas gift and i hope if this is the case. i can play swain in the PBE in winter break. I love you riot!! hope you could do a reveal like that. a if there's a noxus lore update, +points for the love.
Can't wait for the next road map though, wish its NUNU and there's also a topic circulating around boards that he should be perfect for winter next year but i don't think riot doesn't like the idea of delaying a champ for a specific season. And that would cause delayedness like for example, voli has winter mechanics, so he's VGU should be release in winter also. What i think, riot can do whatever they want to release. Also Nunu is pefect to be release in the Summer Season. Making him the Ice Cream of Summer. Bringing the coldness of the summer heat.( Also freljord LORE!!).