Yea, he's an extremely good poke champion - he just spams both DoTs and the AoE if he feels like it. His extremely short attack animation helps with last hitting i reckon. Gets him mana for killing minions as well. While he was nerfed - his ult did get a champion priority which helps heaps. Once with a tear or catalyst his sustain with the crows is ******ed
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you can't compare them at ALL...one is a mage tank and one is a ranged DPS...
in terms of damage? vayne
in terms of sustain? swain
swain doesn't die, vayne instakills kids.
you choose.
you can't compare them at ALL...one is a mage tank and one is a ranged DPS...
in terms of damage? vayne
in terms of sustain? swain
swain doesn't die, vayne instakills kids.
you choose.
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ZeroRacer wrote:
Dropping in for a quick question here. I'm wondering why the swains I do see usually play him mid so often. He has an incredibly nice set of nice top lane matchups due to the melee heaviness of the lane. With his slow birds and nevermove he has more than enough kiting instruments in his arsenal, and even if they can close the gap he can simply press R.
I despise laning aganist good oris or brands, they just outharass me.
^ Swain really should be solo imo.
Also you shouldn't build Swain straight AP if you want your enemies to really hate you.
That plays too much into your ult which allows ignite to more effectively counter you.
I play Swain (This may come as a shocker to you) as a sturdy offtank, with RoA, Banshee's, Frozen Heart, Rylai's, GA, things like that.
Works pretty well.

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Lugignaf wrote:
Yorick is just underplayed. He's plenty good.
Nobody plays Karma though because she has the "support" tag while she's meant to be played as an AP carry.
Thats true, its just impressive how people has no idea of what Yorick does and I just kill them.
I think RIOT tryed to make a support who could fight with her allies, but that didnt work as you can see.
I get AA and then build some tanky items, like Frozen Heart. Have to make good use of AA's passive.

KingCasanova wrote:
I dont see why people say ignite hurts him so much when he has massive hp
Because, it hurts his ability to sit there and soak up damage like sponge. It cutsdown his ult's healing ability.
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Plus, his insane damage over long periods of time makes him an ideal "poke, poke, poke, KILL!!!" champion and. after level 6 and a catalyst, he kinda shrugs off any minimal harass.