Talk:Swain/@comment-25532677-20141117170708/@comment-9048637-20141202215702

Wave clear is another weakness of Swain's. Pre-6, it's terrible, he only has Nevermove, which he won't usually level first and is terrible for damage until it is levelled or until he gets a fair chunk of AP (which he won't have pre-6, naturally; and if he does level it first, that in itself is a victory, because his duelling power will be much worse). Post-6, it becomes better, since bird form helps, but if he has to spam that, he'll eat through his mana quite quickly, especially even if he does't have blue. In conclusion, champions who can repeatedly shove the lane to Swain's turret will ruin his day a bit.

There's also jungler help, of course. Swain isn't necessarily the easiest champion to gank, but he is still an immobile mage, so it should be doable if you have a jungler who's decent at ganking.

Besides those two points, all the things other people mentioned are good.