Talk:Swain/@comment-1818317-20150425112343/@comment-26158777-20150428015219

The purpose his ult serves is to allow Swain to survive in sustained fights and not directly towards waveclearing. Buffing the base damage on his ult will make it more powerful when combined with his kit, which is already real strong even without damage items. The base damage is good as is otherwise he will be able to dish out much more aoe damage for wave clearing and during teamfights and we all know every little bit of damage makes a difference. Decreasing the mana costs on his ult will allow him to be able to manage mana so much better especially when his passive is revolved around returning him flat mana to minion and monster kills and a missing percentage of mana on champion kills and assists and that in turn will make him more broken and easier to play. There are many reasons why many players don't play Swain and one of the reasons is due to his terrible mana problems without the help of mana items. In my opinion if Rito were to buff Swain, they should make his ult's damage increase every second by the base amount of mana cost increase per second to just help give his ult a slightly better mana to damage return rates but not at a ridiculous amount.