Talk:Swain/@comment-70.66.1.252-20120407053919/@comment-1990160-20120407133937

Swain also has his innate. Blue Buff lasts roughly 3 minutes with the mastery. In that time, if you get 2/3 of the minion kills in your lane (6 *6 * 2/3), that's 24 minion kills. Assuming you're level 6, that's 24 * 15 mana, or 360 returned mana. Assuming you're not spamming your skills consistently, this regeneration combined with catalyst/natural mana regen should be fine.

Also, @B4skerville, based on your argument, you seem to be rather confused. Riot promised a buff, and gave him a minor buff, but a buff nonetheless. Thus, it is not a joke, it is just falling short of overly high player expectations.