Talk:Swain/@comment-16494910-20140214191207/@comment-7967732-20140214211131

1. He scales well into late game. With mobile ADC like Lucian, Sivir and Ezreal still being popular, hitting W on them can be hard and he can be kited though (I used to stop playing him completely in the blue Ezreal era). In that case, you might go for the APC or peel for your ADC.

2. He can go top now, but in the tank meta in top lane, he is a sub par top laner. Swain gameplay is very aggressive (abuse his superior single target damage to "scare off" the enemy from farming) why top lane is longer, harder to run from a gank. Therefore, top lane Swain is much vulnerable.

3. In prolonged team fight, RoA is not enough (even with blue). Athene seems to be more popular compare to Archangel due to Swain poor ability to ramp up his mana pool (he mostly do so with ult while staying in fountain)

He is strong but you have to be good at 2 things: dodging skill shots & hitting W. Play aggressive as Swain is not good at all in a peaceful farm fest.