Hello Together,

i tryed many stuff out how to go hard with swain again, with defensive build a mix of socery and dominance, but all the defensive or hard offensive stuff have some big "weakness" in there for example you Ultimate them and you want pretent your tower so more enemys you get in your ult so more life and DMG you take. Now comes the problem that you have to cover by playing swain.

The first thing is: Enemys movement is so often quick faster as you are follow up them dont matter if you have some slowing ap items in your build.

The seconed thing: To bring your Ultimate to an final end. You ulti and all enemys jumnp into you? Yeah your a damn fast one hit but nice try xD

The third thing: Your mana is always so fast ended

The last thing: Your damn spells are on cdr how to deal dmg....and hold the fking lane long enough by having enough preasure against your enemy.


Let me start to explain the last request: Auto attack all minons and just strike them down with your Q ablity like big cannon ones.

Techchase your laner everytime hit E first and go on with q auto attack maybe try between those 2 ablitys to place your w.

Restore enough health till level 6 with your starters and dont forgett the 20 "seconds" rune. Its enough to get in the mid game without dying and hold your lane.

At level 5-6 we recall.

Now its time to get the "dmg up " buy your hextech stuff and a bit more heal and shild power. The shild pretent you by doing your ultimate from some dmg or ultimates enemys bring into you like all in champs how zed or talon. Its possible that your will not able to kill someone couse swain needs a lot more Ap lets say 100 to be enough dangerous.

But your able to protect dragons hold the laners and get easily into the mid game. If you did everything right its now time to shine with swain and your ultimate.

Hextech and the runes help you to stay dangerous enough against some teams with your ultimate and your q spams while doing this. Shurelyas Reverie gives us enough movement speed to outplay some dudes or to catch them more easy by doing out ulimate and some healing + Shilding power. Swain have no shild sure if you use your shilding cover item. Its pretty nice item couse you can use it even when your "cced".

The last covering carry option will be void staff couse you rly will need that when you want to be something like a game carry with your ultimate.

Rod of ages burst us now even more to get some extra health extra ap and mana to stay longer in fights ! Most fights ust ends when you got your void staff and you will see that your kd and spells was hard enough to hold against your enemys out.

zhyonas can be at last an option or you buy other staff but i would always buy it you can cover and buy some time on nasty fights.

Thats all hope you enjoy =).

Have fun with your Swain.

Item set 1 is playable on top or maybe as adc.
Item set 2 i playable on mid pls try with the right runes 2.
Item set 3 is playable on top only with top set try it out.



Explaining Swain for dummies: He dont need much AP, his skills scales with Time. Time that he running enemys off like an Singed. His ulti Scales in the fight everytime more dmg and more and more + a bit ap you have skilled. Theres another choice for ppl that just looking for their MULTIkIlls.

In front of the start to buy first 40 ap item is enough to kill some ppl you play against. And if you cant work with that you will just loose the fights doesnt matter how much ap you will burst him mormel is just an option of 100 for swain and not needfull.

His weak points are low moblity
His other weak point is mana
And his last weak point is that his life steal even in his ultimate isnt enough.

That means to build a good and hard swain you just have to think about runes and items before you go into game against your enemys. There exists some round where its pretty op to play with main runes grasp and just defense items. And there are rounds where its usefull to go for other runes and other items.

But theres 1 thing you should known every swain starts with AP doesnt matter to his tank or other build staff. And the skills are all on the same level xD. That means if he is able to win the fights or not make a huge diffrence for the next buys and game staff. I have sometimes rounds where enemys that got hard feeded with 11/0 play against me with 1/4 or something like this and they cant win with my tankyness and life holder staff in mid game. Otherwise most rounds are won by nasty cc or heal supports they just slow and run things out for the own team.

Sure you can try to go offensive with swain but you will be also a dman easy kill in teamfights when your not on tanky staff.

I prefer at the time more defensive staff couse you give your team chances to work and team. But to be honest most players dont care about your champ your ultimate or how hard to kill you are xD they just play for themselves and if anything goes well or not they just think their team is the problem x)...Iam winning to 75% all my lanes doesnt matter if i got a bad kd or not just by outplaying or iam not lucky enough on 1vs1 to get the last hit and enemys get out and recall...its angry for yourself but hey you see that you got enough power you won and you can stay at last as a "lategame" monster that is hard to beat. If your team dont team up just ignore how things went on and do it better next time ;). Not every game is an game to get the ultimate game carry. Most games are to quick over couse anyone think he is the "ULTIMATE FIGHTER"