What others perceived as a weakness was transformed into strength, but now his hand serves as a constant reminder of the choice he made. This is a classic example of Swain turning a handicap into an advantage. Also, Swain wears a leg brace—which is a nod to his old design—and word on the battlefield is that he rather enjoys dancing with a cane. It felt like a propaganda poster, which some people thought might be more appropriate for a promotional piece than a splash.
The palette was challenging to work with since reds have to remain fully saturated otherwise they start to look pink and blacks can look dull or generally overwhelm the composition. From the beginning, there were three main things we knew we wanted to preserve:. Nothing else was guaranteed, including his transformation. This was mostly because during early design work, we struggled to find a version that felt like a huge transformation moment—something that was exciting and satisfying to use—while also feeling fair to play against.
Swain collected souls from champions who died around him, and he could spend five souls to cast an empowered version of the transformation, which was basically the same ability but stronger. We moved away from this design for multiple reasons. Increasing the cooldown meant we could add a lot more power into the ability. I decided to summarize the main points and make this post as short as possible still a wall of text , so I apologize in advance as it might look quite messy.
Swain is in no means a weak champion. He has his strength and his weaknesses like any other champion, but the difference is his weaknesses results in frustrating gameplay. Swain is a midgame beast but has a pretty exploitable early game.
Swain is a jack of all trades but a master of none. He has a lot of tools but excels at nothing. He has 3 AoE abilities but terrible waveclear. He has no solo kill potential without his ult. His pull passive requires CC but his only CC is an unreliable skillshot that gets harder to land the better the enemy, which leaves him dependent on his team to land CC " you'll often find better targets by following up on their lockdown, rather than trying to set up plays by yourself " quoted from the end of the Swain champion update page.
His abilities do little to nothing on their own during the laning phase, his Q is pretty much an auto attack from max range, his W explodes in 1.
Not only does his Q, W and pull depend on landing E, but also his soul fragments the healing, mana restore and health stacking also depend on landing E throughout the laning phase. Suddenly his burst is followed up by a champion which gives kill potential. Landing E becomes a whole lot easier because:. Swain is listed as a Battlemage on the. Master Swain players should opt into runes or items that offset this weakness.
Ever since his rework in early , there has been an ever-growing disagreement between Riot and Swain players atleast the vocal section of swainmains regarding his state.
Personally, I feel like both have valid points but there are a few points that I would like to add, but first, I would like to address the Swain community. This is one of the comments that I hate seeing the most about champions like Swain.
Together, these changes helped create a more memorable ult for players that also better fit Swain's thematic. It's true—there was a time during development where Swain didn't have any ravens. Beatrice and her feathered friends disappeared completely when we were trying to simplify Swain's many themes. Plus we wanted to clarify that Swain himself was the source of his power, and not the birds.
It just didn't feel like Swain. When Swain was focused around being a death mage, he didn't have any bird-like elements in his ultimate form. And then when we added the ominous hover, everything finally started coming together. League of Legends Wiki. League of Legends Wiki Explore. Runeterra Locations Factions Species Timeline.
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How'd you approach updating Swain's backstory and character? Swain's at his most brilliant when he's at his most brutal. Early Animation Exploration. Portrait Study. We put a lot of thought into the gesture for Swain's demon hand—we wanted him to feel relaxed but in control, with an air of brooding effortlessness.
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Swain's Core Items. Boots 1 2 3. Swain's Luxury Items 1 2 3. Death's Hand Q Q. Vision of Empire W W. Nevermove E E. Demonic Ascension R R.
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