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Recommended Items
Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Ravenous Flock (PASSIVE)
Swain Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Syndra
This Dark hot lady will destroy you will her majestic dark BALLS, but with proper gank requests early game you'll be able to retaliate, and of course, like I said... NO ONE SURVIVES WHEN A CHAMPION IS NEAR SWAIN. You know what I mean
Introduction
When playing as Swain Mid, make sure you have at least ONE Heavy AP item (eg.Rabadon's Deathcap) to make sure you go for maximum trading damage. Rush Magic resist when against heavy burst champions like LeBlanc or Annie.
Sarting Items
----WHY DID I PUT A DORAN'S BLADE IN THE ITEM GUIDE? WUUHT?!
The reason is because you can survive in lane without a Doran's Ring. you have your passive which restores a significant amount of mana, and you also want that little lifesteal pre-6 and a little bit of HP and AD for your E-AA trading
"Full tank Swain? Will it work?"
YES! so long as you have your Rod of Ages you can build whatever you desire! so long as you deal a good amount of damage and provide good defense for your team.
Building Zz'Rot Portal or Ohmwrecker gives you UNLIMITED potential of pushing and diving teams. Once you dive and enemy team successfully they can't really stand a chance. Also, the passive Point Runner gives you suffiecient movement speed when chasing enemy champions and diving.
When against squishy but mobile champions like Riven, Katarina, Zed or Talon, you want to make sure you just poke them with your E-Q. ONLY use your W once they engage in you in close combat.
When against tanky champions like Renekton, Poppy and Zac, keep on poking them and simply shove your wave. when you get to your core you can dive into their towers and erase them from your screen, just make sure you always have vison.
ALWAYS use teleport on botlane whenever a fight occurs, NEVER use your teleport going back to toplane unless you are getting gapped from a gank or kill. YOu wanna make sure you remind your enemies that you are always there whenever there's a teamfight, and always tell your AD/Support to place advanced wards in bushes or let them shove your minion wave.
Guard your team whenever you do a neutral objective (Baron, Dragon, Rift Herald). you are an example of a DREAD LORD. A Dread Lord is a type of Champion that zones a team with it's own presence. Don't be afraid to Dive if you're tanky enough with those Zhonya's and other Health Items, just watch out for your mana pool though.
ALWAYS ask for the blue buff. You are certainly one hell of a drainer. You always activate your ultimate for as long as a teamfight remains, and the mana cost of your Ravenous Flock increases by 5. Always buy a Corrupting Potion as a potion replacement.
When behind, don't panic. YOU ARE A BIRD, AND THE BIRD IS THE WORD. Just farm and farm and farm till you have your items, and make sure you go for a bit of tankier than more on damage, Mid or top. You can carry the whole game by just standing there in Bird Form.
1. High Damage, EXTREMLY tanky
2. High sustain, especially with the Spirit Visage powerspike.
3. Provides good DPS damage in teamfights.
4. Can kill AD Carries IMMEDIATELY in a Pre-teamfight sequence without taking much damage even if the ADC is well-protected
CONS
1. EXTREMELY MANA HUNGRY. Like I said, always ask for the blue buff, get a corrupting potion or buy a Frozen heart late game.
2. Low mobility- When he's ganked early game pre-6, there's nothing he can do but flash. He also kinda sucks when chasing enemy champions, that's why you have your Rylai's Crystal Scepter as your core.
3. Can be subjected to team targeting- In a pre-teamfight scenario, He could be attacked by the whole team especially when they have ignite, grevious wounds or extremly high burst damage and CC. always go for Zhonya's whenever possible.
4. Can't really push that fast- He needs to have either the Glimpse of the Void, or fed in order to push fast, but performs exceptionally well in last hitting towers, if you are good at that also.
The reason Why I also pick Mark Of Hybrid Penetration marks since his E-AAs are really really good early game, and even at late game when he's on bird Form.
In case of long ranged champions such as Azir, Syndra, Orianna which sometimes, hard to reach, go for Mark of Magic Penetration runes instead of Hybrid pens.
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