Talk:Swain/Strategy/@comment-5256197-20130115081357/@comment-9048637-20130716145025

I tend to go Liandry's rather than than Rabadon's. I know, it sounds like madness, not getting Rabadon's on someone with good AP ratios, but I actually find that Liandry's does MORE for my damage, increasingly so as the game progresses, as well as giving me a nice little extra health. Well, maybe it doesn't do more damage against squishies, but honestly, you can probably blow them up without too much difficulty anyway if you can get to them, and Liandry's helps more against the tanks and bruisers that, as a frontline fighter, Swain tends to find himself up against in teamfights.

Otherwise, the only difference between my usual build and yours is that I often get Mercs over Sorcs unless the enemy team has no CC I'm particularly worried about (rare). Oh, and I sometimes goes Spirit Visage over Abyssal, since I feel the CDR helps my offence enough to justify it despite its lack, otherwise, of offensive stats. Plus, I like being very bruisy with Swain.