Talk:Swain/@comment-33172118-20180503190340

Really poorly balanced and unreliable hero. Ultimate has way too long cooldown for what it offers, far too unreliable in terms of damage and very easy to escape. Doesn't offer any duelling power either for you won't be able to trigger the burst damage. The way his Q scales is stupid, starts with 0 damage and starts skyrocketing near lategame dealing literal thousands of damage to melees consistently. E is unreliable as hell and extraordinarily easy to dodge, but does combo into some nasty damage.

Essentially it's another AP carry that has a really hard time coming online, is shit against ranged and mobile enemies and relies way too much on the team's ability to lock down targets. His Q is very cool, his W feels like it's design failed(4/5 times you simply use it to combo into your E rather than use it as a scouting tool) and his E is fine weren't it so god damn unreliable. Ultimate is basically shadow fiend+old swain ultimate but then shittier than both at a massive cooldown.

Absolute disaster for a midlaner since he has both no reliable way to secure ganks, be able to gank or burst anyone. Probably best going top for he's good vs melees and can hold his own OK-ishly with his passive.