Talk:Swain/@comment-4677525-20120101223103/@comment-3165723-20120108111449

depends on personal preference and who you're laning against. if you need to fight back against a pusher or rely more on burst against sustain machines like Gragas and Malz (who are coincidentally both pushing machines) go for W.

If you are against fragile champions with low Hp you should go for E first so your ignite can hit harder.

There's really never a reason to get Q first, it doesn't really do anything the other two spells don't do better.

This is all my opinion of course.