Talk:Swain/@comment-5969046-20141211190022/@comment-5256197-20150127135702

If you really need more mana after your passive and ROA, I'd still go with Unholy Grail rather than Seraph.

Toplane Swain is pretty binary: you'll shit on anyone who don't have a good gapcloser, and you get shitted on by everyone that has one. Atleast when talking about fighters.

I would never build a Seraph against a Riven or Irelia. But against a Nasus or Singed you can control the lane as you see fit, and farm up on that Tear.

If you're bringing Swain top, then you'd might want to check up on your team comp. If you have tanky support and junger you might want to build more offensively. But the good thing is that you can go real tanky, be the team's initiator, and still deal a good amount of damage.