Talk:Swain/@comment-24971427-20180918012523

Hm, seems the highest win rate and most common runes on Swain is Sorcery and Inspiration.

Don't really know why people pick that, I get Domination and Sorcery instead.

With Electrocute being my main keystone.

Swain is heavily rewarded for landing his abilities, but he's more like an AP Juggernaut than a Battlemage like Vlad.

He won't survive just running up to the enemy team and trying to deal as much damage as he can. His abilities have slow cast-times or conditions to be fulfilled.

He's not quick enough for it.

I take Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, and Ravenous Hunter on Domination and Celerity and Nimbus Cloak on Sorcery.

This gives him as much sustain as possible, and Electrocute gives a looming threat that if he lands his E on you, he can insta-proc it with his passive and blow you up, giving him the fear factor that a Darius would.

By ulting, you also give a lot of safety to your team for 12 seconds cause you just placed a gigantic no-no zone around them and anyone who walks inside of it should be prepared to face a 215% AP Burst in one second.

It also makes for a great engage as you ult, cause Nimbus Cloak would function like a Righteous Glory for a Darius, you run up to them at the speed of light and block their escape path with W while pulling them in with E, melting their faces instantly with the minimalist amount of effort.

Ravenous Hunter is too good for the sustain, and with your tanky items, you become insanely hard to kill.

And just so you know, I play him top and start with a Corrupting Potion.

I don't think taking him mid is a good idea because your abilities just don't work at long range against mages cause they take too long to land. And if you're talking about assassins, they have too much mobility and can one-shot you after your combo goes wrong.