Talk:Swain/@comment-5018910-20120531032235/@comment-2.122.237.101-20120604155838

To repeat what I said in an earlier comment:

Chalice is good for Swain. It's very cheap and gives him amazing mana regen, along with some MR to help his lane phase exchanges.

Upgrading it to Grail, however, is not worth it. Maybe as a 5th item - the AP and CDR are nice once you've got your armour and MR high enough - but before that you're just spending 2k gold on offensive stats you won't live long enough to use.