Talk:Swain/@comment-1922285-20101010191728/@comment-174.57.25.48-20101014220552

I'm not sure you get what skill ceiling means. It refers to how powerful a champ may become depending on how skilled you are. Swain's got a couple of weak tools at his disposal and a tanking ult.

He's got CC but both are short range and neither Stun, Fear, or Silence. All of his abilities deal damage but have garbage AP ratios. He has Torment to increase his damage, but he needs to get in their face to use it and no substantial burst to really make it useful. Nor does he have the CDR numbers to spam these low damage abilities reliably.

The only thing he can do better than other Casters is absorb damage while in this Ult form. This is if and only if he has a very high mana pool and a few tank items. Even in this respect, Vlad is a much sturdier caster without sacrificing damage.

If Swain was really balanced would he be receiving substantial AP ratio buffs on PTR a single week after being introduced?