Talk:Swain/@comment-4372473-20131204181627/@comment-3466579-20131208144801

You know, we currently have 116 champions in the League and you can see at most 10 different champions in a match. There's a huge number of champions you rarely see played. This is often due to them actually being "weak", other times they simply are forgotten by the community.

Swain is a really solid mid laner who can do well against both ad melees and classic apcs. His damage is really nice if you know how to properly use Torment, most of all in the early game when you can chip half hp bar off your opponent with a E + Q + AAs combo.

Swain's mid game is probably his weakest stage of the game but by late game you can be really unkillable, since you should have built as an ap off-tank: Rod of Ages, Liandry's Torment, Spirit Visage, Zhonya's Hourglass are all effective items on Swain, granting him both ability power and survivability.

Moreover, Swain doesn't really have mana issues. Carrion Renewal is a fantastic passive for the laning phase and when you start dealing some good damage your aoe skills will clear entire waves really fast, thus gaining a lot of mana.