Talk:Swain/@comment-5211662-20140628060734/@comment-15244341-20140728113217

Boots first with 4 health pots and movespeed quints or flask and movespeed quints. Position so that she either harasses or farms. Ask for a gank since she should push way harder than you, especially if she throws creeps at you and spams her balls and she is really easy to gank. Try to farm as hard as you can so that your RoA comes online as soon as possible. Definitely try to B when you get gold for Catalyst since it will give you health sustain and some health to survive her level 6 burst. Think about Mercury Treads, they will save your live.

That being said, she is probably one of Swain's harder matchups along with Ori and Lux. Be patient. And buy movespeed quints. They are actually okay on Swain against skillshot heavy matchups.

As a last thought, you can try to roam. Swain is not great at it, but he is not bad either. A few ganks bot to secure Dragon/Tower/Enemy buff can compensate a bit for a bad early game.