Talk:Swain/@comment-71.9.121.209-20120923004208/@comment-5018910-20120924123637

Malzahar is kind of DOTish burst kind of champion. He somewhat relies on his ult for kills and is not that deadly without it. However he has a strong silence to compensate for that, but his silence has to be aimed properly.

Malzahar is a VERY POWERFUL farmer with his E. Once you get a few AP and maxed E, you can literally just put your E on a minion and go other lanes to gank.

Swain is a tanky mage which can take a bit or a lot of abuse from the enemy. In my opinion, he has good harassing capabilities with his E and Q and he can zone people out.

He is however bad against champions with longer range than him.