Talk:Swain/@comment-82.47.159.170-20120411234147

guess some people thought Riot would buff Swain so that he is in the same place he was before the blue nerf... I have a message to those people - the nerf of blue was meant to make it harder to spam your abilities. It was obvious the buff would be minor and Swain would still suffer from the blue nerf like all casters do.

Besides he does not have mana issues even without blue, when you last hit minions. His passive allows him to regularly harass the opponent and use ultimate, when you need a bit of health back. If you don't spam your skills for no reason you hardly have any problems. If you build Catalyst like almost every Swain player you are one of the most sustained champions in the game, because it synergises with his kit so good. People should stop over reacting.

Making the cost of ultimate much lower to compensate for the blue nerfs would make Swain's sustain way too high. Bear in mind Riot just nerfed life steal, spell vamp and sustain of some other champions (e.g. Irelia). Swain simply could not stay at the same level otherwise he would be OP. This would also be against new policy of nerfing sustain. Though I still believe Riot should focus on nerfing AD carries, because they are the primary reason for tanky meta. They seem to think people will stop overusing tanky champions (whether casters or bruisers) if they will be less effective, when the real reason is that they are the only type of champions that can survive late game ad carries.