Thoughts on Swain Reveal (S,A & S)

Forhonor321··4 votes·602 views

I've already discussed my thoughts about Swain's gameplay but I also need to talk about my thoughts on him and his new visuals.

First off, I love the new look of him (even if he does look like Lucias Malfoy from Harry Potter). There's just something about his figure now that makes him look like he's in charge, intimidating but you'd also follow him into battle. I will say it's a bit odd still having that jacket attached to his cloak like in the teaser, but that's just a small nit pick of mine.

And honestly, I really do prefer this over the current model. The current one to me just looks so goofy, I could never take his design seriously, except maybe for Tyrant. I will say it kinda sucks that he doesn't have Beatrice around specifically but who knows maybe there's more detail of her in his story when we get it.

Skins look absolutely amazing. Northern Front I like since it's tying in more like the rest of Arctic skins at this point, Bilgewater is (surprizingly) sexy as hell, and Tyrant, MY GOD TYRANT LOOKS SO BADASS! Sadly, as far as I can tell, that post a while ago showing Dragonmaster Swain is a bust. The whole thing was more than likely now a glitch and we were jumping the gun. Which sucks cause in the past Riot did have a champ updates with new skins so I would've liked if Swain got a new one with his release (he's been over 2000 days without one, remember). Who knows maybe over the PBE cycle Riot may surprise us and add Dragonmaster or at the very least try and be in the works for it now that he's getting updated (AND DON'T START THE 'OH BUT HE'S GETTING A VGU' SHIT WITH ME AGAIN! HIS SKINS ARE GETTING UPDATED BUT NOTHING IS NEW IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT, SEPARATE SKINS!)

My finals thoughts are that I'm sad that he doesn't keep his big bird form anymore. That was one of the aspects that previously drew me to him and wanted to play him for that. It was a nice reference to the Lords of Change from Warhammer (both fantasy and 40k). Nevertheless, it's still a good update, but I am a bit sad.

Anyways those are my thoughts that I wanted to share but what are yours?

4 Comments

Nightmist Dark3 votes

no birdform no swain

ModWulf Helhammer3 votes

Except he does? His ult is still largely the same

Sanford and Son1 votes

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Except he does? His ult is still largely the same

No, it's not Swain, it's this new character, but it isnt Swain. I'm usually never down to berate Riot on updates. But this one feels half baked, they just made Vladmir again, slapped some birds in his trench coat and called him Swain.

He needs three things, his lovely Beatrice, the ability to morph and eat them, and his limp. This character lacks any of these things.

Forhonor3211 votes

Not exactly. His current ult makes him into a literal giant bird-man demon. His new ult from the looks of it just slaps some giant wings on him and he floats a bit but he doesn't fully go all bird.

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