Talk:Swain/@comment-5266525-20130225202707/@comment-4875928-20130228130427

Well currently catalyst alone costs 1,2k gold

For it you can buy a tear and ruby crystal so you will have more mana regen with mana, and similar tankyness (but you lose the heal what after lvl 6 with more mana is non significant).

Also for the 2,1k gold you can have hunting guase and tear (what gives you way more dmg and mana then even a fully build RoA).

For similar gold that RoA costs you can have a Tear, Hunting guase and almost full armseeker what gives you overall similar tankyness (specially till RoA is fully charged), more dmg thx to Mpen and more mana.

Also from this way you can build fast Zhonya (and gives you more tankyness then RoA or any item). Even when you would compare this build: tear, Zhonya, and Hunting guase to a Swain with RoA and blasting wand (the same gold). Swain with the first one would always win in 1 vs 1 and he has better teamfighting ability.

Also this way fits more to my runes since if enemy has double AP i take HP/lvl yellows.