Talk:Swain/@comment-24285493-20131212220144/@comment-9048637-20140117184351

"riot this is what made swain omg mode"

Uh... no?

What makes Swain, as you put it, "omg mode" is his insane sustain and tankiness while still putting out generous damage with just two or three damage items. That hasn't changed. Heck, I've mained Swain since I started playing him, and these days, I find Teleport more useful than Ignite on him for extra lane pressure. Given that I still achieve pretty good results with Swain, if I do say so myself, that suggests that the amplification of true damage is hardly what makes him so powerful.

Besides, this is the way it was always meant to be. Riot have always intended that true damage be neither reduced nor amplified by any source; it was just a bug that certain abilities like Torment used to amplify it anyway. Granted, Riot have embraced certain bugs in the past, but I don't see any particularly good reason for them to have embraced this one. Not least because Swain is so strong right now that he really doesn't need it.

And, as Newstandard already pointed out, Swain's passive buff in that patch was just beautiful. So, yeah, really not complaining here. Nor should anyone who likes Swain be.