Talk:Swain/@comment-24191440-20150226065611/@comment-26158777-20150301153523

"Bad thing for Swain is: Difficult champs scale with skill, Swain though needs a stupid enemy.'

Wrong. Swain is a high skillcap champion. He may have 2 point and click abilites that may make him seem easy but he's not. He's like most high skillcap champions; you need to know when to move in, how to feint the enemy into your snares, when to engage and such. Since most of his abilites are close range is what makes him predicatable. High mana costs and upkeep is also another thing that you will have to keep tabs on. If all you needed was a stupid enemy, then any high skillchamp champion will be able to fare well then i.e. Zed, Elise, Lee Sin, etc.

"But Swain vs. Yasuo is a totally lost cause - your only damage you'll ever hit (Q/E) can be deflected by the wind wall, the remaining damage sustained with his passive, and now all Yasuo has to do is close the gap - with as many E's as you want no task worth mentioning. Swain is imply bound to eat 3-4 hits, and that's it for him."

Also wrong. Swain's kit is made to excel against melee champs and his Q will go through Wind Wall since it's a tether and not a projectile. Swain will destroy Yasuo if played correctly; if you can bait out his Wind Wall and dodge tornadoes, Yasuo's going to be in a world of hurt. A Swain pre-6 is nothing more than a squishy mage for Yasuo. If you think this is an easy matchup for Yasuo then you have not been playing Swain correctly.