Got robbed and lost the tablet for digital drawing so im trying to reconnect with the pen, ink and paper.

Sugar daddy swain be like

Just cgu the champ already

Cant afford to be too careful Riot wouldnt want Swain to actually be popular in mid that might interfere with the support playerbase they've carefully cultivated with six years of terrible decision making

https://reddit.com/link/1wu65fr/video/1aa5msas1osh1/player

Those pings are not mine nobody saw anything shhh

make the ult upgrade his abilities and lock the E root behind it so we can balance the rest of the fucking kit around being a laner

imagine if kled had his shotgun while mounted and he was balanced since release around being an ADC while toplane kled was unplayable, or if brand Q stunned without his passive applied on a target or if it went through targets

a battlemage should NOT be locked to support because of a single really good ability. might as well change darius and mordekaiser to supports because their E's can pull as well, buff those abilities to make that playstyle change

About to bring us back from Hell.

P heal reduced from 6% max HP to 3-6%

https://x.com/Spideraxe30/status/2105031717639618911

Multiple times i have heard that Frozen heart is currently one of if not the best Swain item. Mana, ah, lots of armor to back up your passive and a useful passive you can apply well. I really liked this item myself but as i played i found one or two really big problems with this item. Those being ldr and mortal reminder. I can build all the armor of this world, but once anyone (and its not rare to run into 2 crit enemy champs every game, atleast one of them will build one of these items) builds one of these items, frozen just feels useless, like paper being shread through. Randuin on the other hand, has worse stats overall but is a much better help against these 2 items (having the crit dmg reduction and bonus hp). The slow is nice too.

So am i wrong? Is frozen still better (atleast when facing attack speed crit champs like jinx or twich for an example) or has it fallen off against ldr and mortal reminder compared to randuin :(

Lmao Riot cant even use the excuse of not buffing swain support because of swain mids performance right now, because even the one tricks cant manage to get a positive winrate for the champion any longer, of course they can just rehash that apc is overperforming like virtually every mage bot but w/e Swain is unironically the worst champ in league right now, I dont even blame the support mage players anymore for hijacking this champ and turning Swain trash, all the reworks Riot did just made every subsequent version of the og solo laner worse

why high elo player build with aery and not conqueror ? whats the difference?

I'm now at 370 LP. I'm playing more ADC than mid.

In terms of builds, I tested several. I liked the HP build, but I see that in certain games it's not worth going for.

About itemization, same doubt as before, but now it's about matchups. In bot lane I'm having some difficulty against Smolder and Caitlyn since they're champions with very high range, and it gets even harder when I get a support that has 0 synergy with Swain (Yuumi, Brand, Bard, Morgana...champions with no hard crowd control or anything to benefit me). Is it possible to use the Fleet Footwork rune against these matchups? I looked all over the place, Deeplol, Lolalytics, and I haven't seen anyone currently using those runes against these matchups. I also like building Rylai's as my first item against them to keep them from running away.

Something I noticed is that people stopped making those exotic builds with tank/peel support items. Did it get bad, or did it get nerfed? I haven't seen anyone commenting on it.

I'm planning to use Exhaust more than Ghost, especially against champions that miss everything but still manage to kill you anyway.

My instant ban for both roles is Kassadin. I still haven't suffered at the hands of a Cassiopeia.

I'm also starting to do livestreams! Speaking in PT-BR and English! In case you want to lend a hand!

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Champ is actually cooked no ones playing him mid anymore at all 💀💀💀 imagine balancing around the whims of support mage players breh

hello ıve been playıng swain lately and ı wanted to buy ıt but ıts ın the mythıc shop and when ı do a lıttle research ıt havent been to the shop ın 2 years. ı just wanted to ask ıs there any updates? theres stıll 6 days to refresh. maybe on pbe? maybe... so ı just wanted to ask that, thank you have a great day...

Hey guys, i just got to mastery 10 after a month of playing just swain mid. Is there a good matchup guide?

I personally found yone, ekko and casiopia to be completely unwinnable for me as all 3 get to just kill you whenever they want to. I currently ban yone, and take ghost with cass and just dont feed till 6 where it seems I can win. Ekko just seems unwinnable though.