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    I feel like the 'consideration' for your defensive options

    are a lot less serious compared to the considerations for

    your offensive options. I'd prune your cheat sheet so that

    the defensive options that you list are more viable.

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    I don't tend to nitpick this a ton, but I feel like viktor is

    much more of a threat than other champions.

    Lux is probably a pretty nasty threat too.

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    THREAT CHAMPION NOTES

    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, justbe 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 you

    heal 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 (SaltyChocobo on 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 alot 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 h ave t aken h as been led by him, up u ntil 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:

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    FOR NEW PLAYERS

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    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: Swain can 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

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    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).

    I suppose swain isn't as strong of a pick if he is playing against a team composition with strong disengage, like

    a janna

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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

    I don't feel like I got a lot out of reading this spoiler.

    (1)

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    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

    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, insistingon combos such as Decrepify +

    Torment + auto-attack.

    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 .

    I don't feel like I got a lot of reading this spoiler. (2)

    ...

    You'll see why i'm writing this later.

    I don't feel like I got a lot from reading thesespoilers (4)

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    - 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!

    - 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

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    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

    Nevermoveor horrible positioning in their part.

    Greater Seal Armor

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

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

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    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

    OH MY GOD The stuff in this spoiler is really important!

    There's a problem though. I've just read 4 largely

    unhelpful spoilers before this one.What are the odds that I, as a reader, will choose

    to ignore this spoiler based on the premise that

    the 4 spoilers beforehand were, in relativity of

    importance, garbage?

    I'd have ignored this spoiler as well.

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    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).

    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

    And this spoiler. And this one actually has important

    information in it. What a tragedy.

    In fact, since apparently the content in these spoilers are

    skippable, I'm not even going to read them.

    I hope you get the idea. Your readers are missing out

    on invaluable information by neglecting to read your

    spoilers. This is NOT the readers' fault.

    I am personally of the belief that the stuff that belongs

    in spoilers are superficial things like mathematical

    analyses, etc etc.

    I'll be reading the spoilers in your guide from now on,

    but if you still would like to keep invaluable information

    in your spoilers, I can do a re-review of your guide and

    simply not read any of your spoilers instead.

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    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 doingquick waves of harass.

    > > > ( ) >

    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 ( Aniviacan block you, Cassiopeiahits harder, Viktor may hit harder until you get

    This can be misinterpreted. In your video, you continue

    trading with your opponent since the champion is well

    past your minion wave.

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    your ult, Azirhas 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 toeither 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 Hourglassif

    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.

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    CORE ITEMS

    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

    S TART ING I TE MS F IRS T RE CAL LS OF FE NS IVE OP TI ON S D EF EN SI VE OP TI ONS

    STANDARD RECALLGET THESE FIRST

    VERSUS EARLY BURST(AFTER ROA)

    I like this

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    ORIDEAL RECALL

    IF VERY BEHINDVERSUS STRONG

    LANERS

    FED VERSUS LOW TO

    DECENT MRES

    VERSUS HIGH MRES

    VERSUS 3+ AP

    DAMAGE SOURCES

    OTHER GOOD

    OPTIONS

    MORE ITEM DETAILS

    FULL BUILD EXAMPLES

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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

    The trading section of this guide is very important.

    There are champions that do very well when the wave is

    pushed to their tower (fizz, e.g.), and there are

    champions that don't do well when the wave is pushed to

    their tower (leblanc). Where does swain fall on this

    spectrum?

    For your trading section: Exactly when do you want to

    roam? Show us an example of when you forced your

    opponent to recall and you roamed successfully to a side

    lane and got off a successful gank, and then explain why

    your roam worked.

    Farming tips were explained well. I'd personally take this

    out of the spoiler, but I can see an argument for keeping

    it in the spoiler too.

    Minion wave control:

    "It's really important that you control the way the minion

    wave is flowing"

    > neglects to explain how to control this.

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    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),

    ALWAYS pre-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.

    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

    Continued from the previous page:

    Timing your opponent's wards is critical for knowledge of

    the lane. Knowing when your opponent's wards expire

    can make it easier for your jungler to gank your opponent

    by either avoiding the ward, or waiting for it to time out.

    Additionally, knowing the expiration of your opponent's in

    conjunction with his lane behavior can give you a good

    idea of where the jungler is. For example, if the opponent

    is playing very aggressively 20-25 seconds after his ward

    expires, it may mean that the opponent jungler is nearby.

    Ganks:

    It also depends on whether your opponent jungler/laner

    is ranged or not. Depending on their mobility and

    autoattack/spell range, it may be easier or harder to both

    land an important snare, and also get increased healing

    from ravenous flock

    I'd like you to cover tower dives with swain as well in this

    section.Skirmishing:

    Good explanation, because of this i'll upvote your guide.

    Although it doesn't hold much weight, I'd +scout your

    guide if the most important parts of the guide weren't in

    spoiler tags. =,='

    Some things that it may do you good to include would be

    explaining why you pathed the way you did (towards

    banana brush instead of death brush) - pathing like this

    forced draven and renekton into more of a choke point

    where it'd be easier for you to land nevermore; In thisinstance, if you had pathed towards death brush, your

    opponents could have pulled away, but because you

    pathed towards the banana brush, the only way for your

    opponents to escape would be through the mid lane

    brush... while tristana was getting free autos off on the

    opponents.

    Vision is more important when the opponent has a

    champion that's good at flanking, like an assassin, or

    someone like gnar/olaf who can't normally just run up

    and go in on the opponents.

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    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 )

    An important note would be that it's important to keep

    track of certain cooldowns. For example, an alistar

    without headbutt pulverize can effectively be ignored for

    the next 4.5-5.5 seconds without impunity.

    Another thing that's important is to analyze your

    opponent's composition and determine whether you

    need to save your CC for one of your opponents.

    For example, if i'm playing a soraka, and i'm playingagainst an assassin like katarina or zed, i'll save my

    equinox for their ulties, instead of using it for peel.

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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

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    - 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

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    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 opponent

    26/06/2012 - 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 tellanyone.)

    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 Zedto matchups. Added a matchup navigation system14/03/2013 - Added a table of contents

    15/03/2013 to 17/03/2013 - Updated the guide

    10/04/2013 - 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 section13/01/2015 - 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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