Talk:Swain/@comment-24823977-20140923170834/@comment-15244341-20141008200500

Never Tear. Swain is not bad bad late game, but he is definitely better midgame. Tear just delays your midgame spike and gives you zero damage. Plus Swain is actually a bad tear stacker. He has no reason to spam his spells since they cost a lot of mana and all have high cooldowns and Ravenous Flock shouldn't be spammed willy-nilly because it is your trading tool, surviveability mechanism and major AoE DPS spell. If it is on cooldown, you might as well be playing Malzahar and have DoTs with some range.