Talk:Swain/@comment-68.68.107.78-20121111121305

Archangel’s Staff rework just became a monster item for Swain. The Tear can now continuously stack with channeled mana abilities (such as his Ult) and the Seraph's Embrace active will be absolutely huge in teamfights. We're talking about an extra 750hp shield when taking into account Swain's base mana combined with the Expanded Mind mastery, the SE and the RoA.

On a side note, Ryze just became nearly unkillable. Haven't done the math yet, but with items such as RoA, SE, FH, BV, etc. we could be looking at a 1000hp shield. That's a full spell rotation for a lot of mages.