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2 KatarinaCan't cs unless she uses Q, ult's grievous wounds aren't relevant unless youmessed up the lane, can't trade, gets harassed to oblivion. Zone her early onand keep the pressure up. Be careful against high CC ganks. Otherwise, just

be an ass and hurt her. Don't try to W unless her E is on cooldown/she's mid-ult because she can Shunpo away.

2 AkaliVery easy to bully early game, you can keep this up post-6 even if shecommits as long as you have mana. Pink wards may help you kill her anddeny her even more. Just be careful not to ult randomly, or she can use thecooldown to kill you. Try fighting with enemy minions around post 6 so youheal harder. She might roam though.

2 TalonYou almost need to mess this up on purpose in order to lose. He lost hissilence, all he can do to harass you is make you eat free Rakes, unless hegoes onto you which gives you a free chance to Q->W->E for A LOT of freedamage. Pink wards during teamfights are a must. Just be careful because hecan all in you in ganks. That's the only time he can do anything against you.

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Hello, I'm FalseoGod (SaltyChocoboon EUW) and

welcome to my guide for the Noxian Lord of

Cannibalism, Swain!

I have written this guide ever since I picked up Swain

in season 2 and instantly fell in love. Although I play a

lot of champions because I tire easy of doing the same,

he is always my go to option and I have a very extensive

understanding of how he works. In fact, from every Elo

journey I have taken has been led by him, up unt il my

season 5's Diamond.

This being a guide, I am offering more than just a

cheat sheet: bellow you can find the reasoning behind

the options I showed, alternatives, as well as all sorts of

important information like how to lane or decisions to

make during teamfights. I hope you like your read and

feel free to ask any questions!

SUMMONER SPELLS:

RUNES:

MAX ORDER:

BUILD:

GOOD AGAINST:

BAD AGAINST:below* :P

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FOR NEW PLAYERS

Pros:

+ Constant DPS

+ Nice crowd control (a slow and an AoE snare)

+Inbuilt sustain with ultimate

+ Tanky nature

+ Good snowball potential

Cons

- Low mobility and medium range

- Lack of burst compared to other midlaners

- Early game can be a struggle

- Quite mana hungry during teamfights

- Mediocre waveclear/pushing until midgame

- Comps with lots of shields or heals mess his

teamfighting a bit

WHEN SHOULD I PICK SWAIN?

As a counterpick: Swain is generally a good pick

against any champion he outranges like Talon,

Zed, Akali, Katarina, Fizz. For more

information, check my matchups list above )

Your team can use a frontliner that deals

good damage: Swaincan take a lot of

punishment and dish out a lot of damage. He is

not ideal for a poke comp (teams that deal a lot of

damage with harass without actually forcing a

fight), but he is good in teamfight-oriented teams,

dive comps (teams that attack even under enemy

tower), pick comps (teams that use their mobility

and CC to separate one enemy team member

from the rest).

Aggressive ganking junglers: Swain's early

game isn't amazing against various different

champions, but he has decent CC and great

damage to followup or initiate allied ganks! Look

for aggressive junglers like Lee Sin, Elise,

Shaco, Vi, Jarvan IV,...

A mage that doesn't fade lategame If played

to his fullest, Swain becomes more of a threat the

longer each match lasts. If you make sure you

don't get popped on the opposition's first rotation,

you can soak up and dish large amounts of

damage on both carries, bruisers and tanks!

However, Swain does not offer a particulalrly

strong burst at any stages of the game, lategame

included (except midgame if really fed).

Does the glossary really

require an entire section?

It takes up a lot of space

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IGNITE

A standard pick for midlaners, specially those who are supposed to be in range to

use this summoner spell. It deals true damage over 5 seconds and reduces

healing effects.

USAGE STRATEGY

FLASH

Pretty much a must have to nearly all league champs. This spell offers both

extra safety and extra playmaking potential. It allows you to instantly blink in

the direction of your cursor.

USAGE STRATEGY

Currently, Swainhas two very viable keystones: Thunderlord's Decree and Deathfire Touch . This

happens because, although he will deal more overall damage due to the synergy between Deathfire Touch and

his kit, a Thunderlord's Decree applied to a favorable matchup will help him snowball mosntruously. Obviously,

you can still snowball with Deathfire Touch or fail to snowball with Decree.] It'll always depend on the game

itself and the opportunities that arise.

Bellow you can see how you should choose between the two. If you're doing Blind Pick, I recommend

Thunderlord's Decree .

THUNDERLORD'S DECREE VS DEATHFIRE TOUCH

As fancy as your "back to the top"

logo is, it is taking way too much spac

I would find a way to make it smaller.

Icons feel way too big. Why are

a lot of your important information

placed in spoilers? You want your

audience to take ininformation,

not skip it.

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MASTERY PAGE ASPECT

- You want Thunderlord's Decree

mostly for favorable matchups. This

keystone is perfect to help a laner

snowball, and snowballing makes you

hit your damage peak faster.

- Use it to play aggressive, insisting

on combos such as Decrepify+

Torment + auto-attack.

- Pick up Precision to empower

your overall damage output if you're

going this route. Assassin and

Double Edged Sword might also be

considered to increase your damage

even more, but only if you're really

confident in the matchup!

MASTERY PAGE ASPECT

- You want Deathfire Touch mostly

for farm lanes. This keystone

synergizes with Swain's kit,

making him deal more AoE damage

with his ult and DoT, meaning that it

becomes more powerful on Swain

later in the game than

Thunderlord's Decree .

- If you're going this route, you'll

probably be wanting more defensive

masteries such as Secret Stash for

sustain.

- Piercing Thoughts is the only

option in this tier for Swain, giving

you that extra magic penetration that

you're not getting because you had to

forsake Precision .

STANDARD

RUNES

Greater Quintessence of

Ability Power

3

Greater Mark of Hybrid

Penetration

9

Greater Seal of Scaling

Health

9

Greater Glyph of Scaling

Magic Resist

9

This is a standard rune setting for Swain, although I use various rune pages just for him. It provides necessary

early magic and armor penetration (trading with auto-attacks), flat AP, and Health/lvl seals to provide you some

extra bulk. I suggest these runes if you don't have many pages.

OTHER OPTIONS

Greater Mark of Magic Penetration

If you don't have IP for hybrid penetration marks, these will also do fine.

However, do remember the hybrid penetration runes are a better option for

Swain because your harass should have auto-attacks in the mix (and makes him

better versus melee champions in general).

Against ranged champions, these runes occasionally can be better because some

of these ( Xerath, Lux come to mind) should never be in range for

frequent harassing, requiring instead either jungler presence, a good

Nevermove or horrible positioning in their part.

Greater Seal Armor

Again, trying to be fancy is costing

you a lot of unnecessary space.I suck at drawing squares don't judge me

Opening the spoilers in here will

completely messes up the format and

discourages readers.

Frankly, I'm a bit shocked to see

that your standard runes has a lot

less explanations than your

alternative runes.

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These are great against Zed or Talon, and can also be used against

Yasuo or other AD matchups that appear. They provide you with extra

resistances to endure the occasional harass that you failed to dodge and to abate

their level 6 kill potential.

Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power

Also good versus easy matchups that don't really require magic resistance. You

may even pair with a combination of Scaling AP Seals and Scalling health to start

with even more ability power!

PASSIVE: CARRION RENEWAL

Swain's passive. Basically, killing an enemy unit (minions, monsters and champions)

will grants you mana.

USAGE STRATEGY

Q: DECREPIFY

Swain's crow appears by his side and deals damage for 3 seconds to the target,

slowing them for as long as they take damage. If they leave the crow's range, this

spell disappears.

USAGE STRATEGY

W: NEVERMOVE

After a short delay, enemy units in the cast area take damage and are rooted

(meaning they can't move or use abilities that would move them).

You're placing important information

in spoilers. You don't want to do tha

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USAGE STRATEGY

E: TORMENT

Swain's bread and butter. Deals over time damage and amplifies ALL damage from

him (except Ignite).

USAGE STRATEGY

R: RAVENOUS FLOCK

Swain's unmistakable ultimate: up to three different targets will be hit by damage

dealing ravens every second. 75% of the damage they deal heals you by 75% if

they're champions and 25% if they're minions.

USAGE STRATEGY

SKILL PICK AND LEVELING ORDER

DETAILED SKILL ORDER INFORMATION

NOTE: For clarity, I'm using as an Auto-Attack indicator

>

TORMENT > AA

EXAMPLE

The most basic lane harass combo. If your opponent does not back off and you have confidence you'll outdamage

them, you may follow this with other abilities (usually Decrepify + Nevermove). Try to get 2 auto-attacks in

or another ability if you have Thunderlord's Decree

However, when you start harassing and committing to damage an opponent, enemy minions will start aggro'ing

you if you're too close (and if the lane opponent doesn't fight back, your minions will only hit enemy minions,

slowly starting to push the wave). Circumvent this by either positioning away from enemy minions or only doing

quick waves of harass.

This is one of the few uses of spoilers

I can tolerate

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> > > ( ) >

Decrepify > Nevermove > Torment > (Ravenous Flock) > AA

This is how you start scaring some of your opponents. It doesn't work against ANY champion without at least

getting you in trouble ( Anivia can block you, Cassiopeia hits harder, Viktor may hit harder until you get

your ult, Azir has more sustained damage before you hit 6, Syndra also hits harder), but this sort of

commitment works for winning trades/setting up ganks as long as you know how much damage your opponent

can output.

The basic idea is to use Decrepify to lead them into Nevermove (although you can start the other way

around: hit Nevermove and immediately move into them while casting Decrepify and Torment for a lot of

damage) and then rotate through your skillset for a nice chunk of HP.

You can test how you can set this trade up based on your opponent: if they have similar or lower range, use

decrepify to try and test their response and slowly work up through the combo. If their range is higher, try to

either position closer to them and bait some skillshots/zone them so you can try casting Decrepify, or you can

try and force them into your Nevermove by making them move towards midlane choke points.

> > > >

Torment > Ignite > Ravenous Flock > Decrepify > Nevermove

EXAMPLE

Your daily "melt into nothingness" combo mid/lategame. If you had the possibility of landing Nevermove early

(they positioned poorly/dashed onto you), start the rotation with Torment + Ignite anyway.

You want to use this combo when you're 90% sure that your opponent either can't flee because they were

cc'd/had their mobility abilities on cooldown or, per example, when they're trying to commit to killing you and

you're sure you can win that trade.

Lategame, you will generally want to try and get this combo on enemy carries and use Zhonya's Hourglass if

they have any type of self-healing (lifesteal/spellvamp). This is because, since you don't have a burst, you're using

Zhonya's active to deny them lifestealing/spellvamping from you, and your full combo lategame still deals massive

damage, it just takes more time.

CORE ITEMS

Might want to emphasize when to us

this combo over the combo you

mentioned below. Clarity can come

a long way.

Might also want to explain why you

don't use Torment [E] first in your

combo, since it would make sense

for the damage amplification to comefirst from an inexperienced perspect

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These are the only two core Swain items, everything else revolves on matchups, how fed you are and what do

you need to overcome the enemy team. And, even so, Rod of Ages may be skipped if you had a bad start (will

go over this further down).

What you need to keep in mind is this Swain is a frontline mage, he is supposed to take and dish damage.

He requires HP, a decent mana pool, ability power and a decent combination of armor and magic resistance, which

are more stats than most midlaners need to procure. However, AP is the main focus ALWAYS because 1)Swain

scales greatly with AP and 2) The more damage Swain deals, the more he heals with Ravenous Flock.

BUILD PATHS

STARTING ITEMS FIRST RECALLS OFFENSIV E OPTIONS D EFENSIVE OPTIONS

OR

STANDARD RECALL

IDEAL RECALL

IF VERY BEHIND

VERSUS STRONG

LANERS

GET THESE FIRST

FED VERSUS LOW TO

DECENT MRES

VERSUS HIGH MRES

VERSUS EARLY BURST

(AFTER ROA)

VERSUS 3+ AP

DAMAGE SOURCES

OTHER GOOD

OPTIONS

MORE ITEM DETAILS

FULL BUILD EXAMPLES

You mentioned RoA as a core, bu

not in your build path. Not sure if

intended but definitely affects

clarity.

From what I understand, the order

is from left to right, and you only

pick 1 option in each row column.

Except in the 3rd column, you hav

to get Zhonyas + Sorc Shoes then

pick from the remaining two option

Kind of confusing.

Formatting is a bit weird in genera

here. Doesn't look like a build path

at all from the first look.

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SaltyChocobo's Swain Laning Basics

This is a lane phase video I made to help you see in practice

some of the concepts explored in this section

Here I will provide some general Swain-specific tips to try and make your lane phase run smoother. This chapter

is separated into various fields so that you may choose those you want to improve on instead of having to scour

through all the information.

TRADING

FARMING TIPS

MINION WAVE CONTROL

GANKS

This section is basically filled with tips. Teamfighting is one of the most situational events in League of Legends

(depends on both teamcomps, levels, items, objectives attained, champions involved and their cooldowns, etc.) The

idea itself is pretty much "(help) kill as many as possible while trying to have the least number of deaths on your

side", but it's never this simple.

EXAMPLE OF A SKIRMISH

Use your team's trinkets to your advantage and don't be caught off-guard. Vision Ward,

Farsight Alteration and Warding Totem are key for this. Either way, if you see them coming for

you and you're sure they can get the initiate on you (think Leona/Malphite ult, long-range CC),

ALWAYSpre-emptively pop Ravenous Flock, because it'll allow you to heal and deal damage

even if cc'd.

Once you get Zhonya's Hourglass, consider positioning much closer to the enemy backline during

the fight (unless your team can't followup well or you're too behind): the active is really strong on

Swain, allowing you to engage, deal damage, bait their engages and become immune to a lot of

stuff while that active is working. Up until you have zhonya's, position a bit more conservatively,

preferably together or by your tank's side in case he's also on tha fight

Remember your carry! Swain has some really good peel options versus divers and champions

that jump carries (think Xin Zhao or Nocturne) in the form of Decrepify and

NevermoveSometimes, soaking damage while peeling for your ad carry is the best option. A good

example is when your carry is fed, which means that if you can help keep them alive they can ramp

up through the teamfight by dealing with the divers first. Position in between the diver and the rest

of the enemy team, so you can simultaneously deal AoE to up to two more targets and try to help

your adc survive. This positioning also makes you an easier target to reach, which reduces the odds

of your adc getting other champs to followup on the dive.

These four spoilers right here are

the complete opposite of eye candy

when you open them up. Your aim is

to make your guide as simple as

possible in terms of clarity and

readability, not the opposite.

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If your adc isn't doing that well or you can't reach them, you should try to be in the frontline or at

the enemy backline with the rest of your team's fighters and tanks, to try and dish as much

damage as possible.

Using Nevermove well is essential: be it picking up targets (or even casting it under their tower

and happily diving them with Ravenous Flock on and Zhonya's Hourglass ready to take the

heat off of you) or separating engagers from their back line (the diver engages, you cast

Nevermove on their backline and suddenly they're alone against you and your team). Missing the

Nevermove can be as harmless as not getting an engage to something harmful like failing to peel

for someone/stopping an engage, perhaps making the difference between a won or lost teamfight.

Again, if you're not too confident about hitting it, try to use it as a followup of your team's

remaining CC.

Try to keep track of how each teamfight went: if your carry played well but got dived by assassins, if

you exaggerated in the amount of time you exposed yourself to the enemy team and didn't back

off, how well was the engage, etc. Learn from each fight and try to guarantee they'll go favorably

each time. Also, make sure you're buying your items according to who's strongest on the enemy

team, their main sources of damage, their resistances, etc. This means checking if them for Mres

and if you got Void Staff or Liandry's Torment to help abate it, having Zhonya's Hourglass

to dodge AoE or focused damage, Abyssal Scepter if they have two or more good sources of AP

damage, etc.

You've reached the end of my guide! I do hope you enjoy Swain as much as I do, knowing someone will be eaten

alive by your DoTS before they do, tanking and dealing huge amounts of damage! Swain is not as immediate as

some other mages, but he's very fun once you start to manage him.

I shall keep this updated and am completely open to questions/suggestions )

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- Jhoijhoi for her how to make a guide guide

- Astrolia for all the info she gave me about BBCoding that I couldn't find around or herpaderped about

- Castermaster because I would've never been where I am with Swain (for better or worse) without his guides

- Deluth for the criticism and suggestions

- Xeronn for the amazing critique that helped me improve the guide's appearance and info display by 9000

- Albableat for pointing out some details and providing info to pending questions

- Throatslasher and Polsemanden for further feedback on itemization, mastery priorities and runes to go with these

options

- Xenotechie for his review and for pointing out some details in the matchup section

- tehAsian for his review and attention to detail

- Teyso for more details like broken code

- CrimsonSkyz for pointing out spelling mistakes and outdated rune names

- TheNamelessBard for reviewing my guide

- Utopus for giving a great in-depth review on the guide

- Levask for the patience and continuous feedback and support

03/06/2012 - Added the "Update" and "Twisted Treeline" chapters Updated the items on the cheat spread and

added a small Note on the "Items" chapter added a difficulty rating to the lane opponents chapter, and reworked

it's looks

04/06/2012 - Added The "Credits" section minor tweaks on the laning opponents chapters

08/06/2012 - Added Draven Patch Notes and some to-be-tested details

15-06-2012 - Updating coding and guide information thanks to Xeronn Finished updating all sections, as well as

the build

20/06/2012 - Added abilities to each lane opponent26/06/2012 - Corrected some silly mistakes, such as writing Boots of Mobility instead of Boots of Speed as

an item for facing Ahri

01/08/2012 - Added Zyra and corrected Orianna according to her recent buffs (she's op again. Don't tell

anyone.)

28/08/2012 - Corrected a little code error pointed out by Xeronn and removed the "Swain got buffed" chapter

since it was out of date

06/09/2012 - Reviewed important options on this guide old options are still mentioned

11/09/2012 - Reviewed every guide section

21/09/2012 - Added a new chapter on itemization Added Fizz to the lane opponents section (thanks for

pointing him out BluAnimal)

29/09/2012 - More details after a review from tehAsian

30/10/2012 - Detail feedback from Teyso

08/12/2012 - Season 3 update

07/01/2013 - Rebooting the guide's contents and visuals

08/01/2013 - Finished the reboot. Added Zed to matchups. Added a matchup navigation system

14/03/2013 - Added a table of contents

15/03/2013 to 17/03/2013 - Updated the guide10/04/2013 - Edited out some items

03/06/2013 - Edited some contents

14/08/2013 - Changed some items content, preparing for deeper review

11/09/2013 - Major content update, finally added Lissandra to the mid matchups

30/10/2013 - Updated due to patch 3.13

30/11/2013 - Preseason Update *whew*

13/12/2013 - Sad day, Torment+ Ignite interaction removed with patch 3.15

13/02/2014 - Updated with Xerath rework, still hardly any Swain vs Yasuo data

04/06/2014 - Minor update with the runes on the sheet

09/06/2014 - Yasuo added to matchup section

13/01/2015 - Added a few notes on Morellonomicon vs Athene's

28/01/2015 - Updated for patch 5.2

04/02/2015 - Beginning of a visual and informational overhaul

10/02/2015 - Major overhaul completed

16/02/2015 - Information clarification/correction according to Utopus' review.

17/07/2015 - Patch something something update, Swain got buffed through items

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