@Riot will new Swain still have a cane?

Xodiathe4bdn1··10 votes·2,861 views

https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/LOL_CMS_138_Article_02.jpg With people asking questions like Where is Beatrice ?What’s his new role?How’d he get vastaya blood?is he a warlock? I gotta ask Will VGU swain still use a cane? Swains back is turned from us ( for obvious teaser reasons) and his cloak covers such a wide area that it is difficult to see whether Swain still has his cane or not. before I would have said that his posture was too straight for a man using a cane to have but it is very possible, save for those seriously injuried, for a person to walk with a cane standing straight without doing the whole bent back slouched posture that is popular especially for the old and villainous. I’m talking about the cane because it is a very intricat part of swains identity almost as much as Beatrice. From afar he looks like a sickly crippled man that can barely stand let alone rule an empire. But up close you see the great dark sinister power in his eyes contained within an insidious ‘weak’ body which serves to make you underestimate him and by the time you try to correct that mistake it’s far too late......... https://giphy.com/gifs/starwars-star-wars-revenge-of-the-sith-3oKIPzLXQYb2Bn5PLG

Buuuut if they were to remove the cane then I hope riot makes him embrace an intimidating dark emperor theme: a man who is a tall strong imposing figure seeping with deadly arcane energy ,who completely lacks any visible weaknesses and his very stature says ‘I can kill with a thought’ Like these guys http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/669/669804/c20130710_wizado_007_cs1w1_840x1280.jpg http://img05.deviantart.net/ed0c/i/2014/175/8/4/dark_lord_by_theadversaryalliance-d7nqw4y.jpg https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/004/389/377/large/billy-christian-prometheus-final-psd.jpg?1483320845

10 Comments

LunSeiSleidee3 votes

I prefer the Palpatine example. We've got enough intimidating fit big guys.

Brutusness6 votes

Yeah, and Swain's sorcery and nonthreatening physical look contrast with Darius' brutish fighting style and stature. Makes their alliance look very cool.

WestTiger1 votes

Also contrasts with the much-larger physical threat he becomes in raven form. In the old cinematic trailer for the Dominion Map release, Swain transformed into a raven and basically punched Jarvan IV who was trying to ult him.

Even though the main part of raven form is the life-leeching, in-canon I think Swain does in fact get significantly stronger because well, he becomes a giant demon bird.

ULTRAF0RCE1 votes

story wise at least in post-retcon era, I don't believe Swain's demon bird has been mentioned.

Malicious Metal2 votes

Not to mention that being more of Morde's shtick.

Velzard of Koz2 votes

If he doesn't keep cane at least he might still be crippled and it being visible on his walking.

DWT123451 votes

Palpaltine version is much better imo. Mordekaiser already has the "dark lord" thing down.

Xodiathe4bdn11 votes

True I guess we do have enough dark intimidating lords and warlocks

The DrBonjigollo1 votes

I just hope. That they keep. His pimpin-ass cornrows.

Meep Man1 votes

If he keeps the cane, I want to have a setting in-game to make me be able have that "dramatic echo" effect that people with canes have in movies when they walk into a huge room and people are speaking and everyone goes silent because they know who just showed up.

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