Talk:Swain/@comment-4643494-20120129152430/@comment-202.156.11.11-20120208145205

Every time he's used in a tournament, he gets shutdown. And I've watched just about every tournament since the beginning of last year. The only time, that Swain REALLY, REALLY shone, was in the hands of Fnatic Shushei and he WASN'T the AP mid. They played double AP with Morgana being the main AP mid and Shushei took top as anti-melee AP.

They didn't take him for damage, they took him for pure CC and off-tanking. Morgana R + Swain's constant CC and additional AOE damage, but Morgana was the obvious AP carry. Shushei even built him with a Glacial Shroud and in a big push on top lane, he face-tanked 3 towers all the way through.

And that's really the only time I've not seen a Swain get shutdown and be useless by mid game. In Kiev, Swain was used once in mid and he got shutdown instantaneously. As Jatt commented, Swain doesn't have the ability to recover from a loss advantage as easily as other casters.