Talk:Swain/@comment-74.93.5.162-20110930031825/@comment-3486816-20111004194531

I know you don't have to activate the passive, but you're still putting skill points into it just to get the passive, while you hardly get to use the ability early game; and in that sense the skill points are relatively "wasted", whereas Swain's passive costs him nothing. Because of this Swain can theoretically have a much stronger early game since he doesn't have to sink points into what is essentially a useless skill slot for that point in time to get mana back.