Talk:Swain/Strategy/@comment-26272021-20150403045037

I have been playing Swain for the past four years now and it's really good. My build on this would be,

Zhonya's, Seraph's, Rylai's, Raba, Visage, and, the most important part of this, Sorcerer's boots with Homeguard.

Alright. I know most of you will ask, "Why Seraph's? It's not convenient. It doesn't make sense." Well, I suggest you guys get this instead of ROA sooo early in game. By nature, Swain's skill sets are configured in a way that you can immobilize a single target/root multiple targets at a time, and have a high survivability on lanes and on games(which makes him a very good initiator of clashes). His E is set up to amplify his damage for 20% max so dealing a lot of magic damages shouldn't really be a problem. He has a good utility skills with his Q and W. But his survivability in lane and in game is decided by 3 items. Zhonya's, Visage, and Seraph's. I am not calling it Archangel's Staff because Swain will be able to change it to Seraph's even before you can say b**ch, so there's really no need for that. The reason for this? Homeguard.

If you ult everytime that you go inside the base, the ToG will be continuosly stacking up the mana cap that you are getting for having the ability active while you are regenerating. With the Homeguard ability of the boots, the Mana cap will continuosly increase while you are just cawing your ass buying items or whatevs. Now, of course, this will always have a downside as you are virtually out of the lane to get that mana cap going up but if you are going to farm and lane early game correctly (which means avoiding getting killed by gankers and OP'd by your lane opponent), they will be in for some hell of a ride.

I suggest you try this build and see for yourself. I'm not really good at explaining but if you have flash/ignite and a full AP/level runes, you'll see. You'll feel the power.

P.S.

Avoid Morgana. He's a b**ch that you can't handle very well.