Talk:Swain/@comment-4881935-20130630042358/@comment-4834593-20130702055508

I think there is an important difference between Swain and Anivia. Swain's ult lasts until deactivated, while Anivia's ult has a maximum range, and is deactivated by hard cc.

Anivia's ult costs 60 mana per second. If you have 3000 mana and blue buff, this means 100 mana per 5 seconds from those already, which means you have 200 to go, 50 if you also have a Mana Font passive, while you already get 15 from AUG, means 35 to go. With Eleisa's Miracle you can get a free 15 without taking up an item slot, 20 to go. Add a Seraph's Embrace and Morellonomicon, there you got your perma-ult. (oh, and without mana regen it takes 50 seconds before you're out of mana anyways)

If the same would be possible for Swain, that'd be OP as fuck, because 1) he heals from it and 2) he can take it over the full map, while enemies can't deactivate it.