Talk:Swain/@comment-4372473-20131204181627/@comment-8267817-20131210172216

Mobility and near instant damage, that is what people look for.

Assassins got a lot more popular/better at the beggining of season 3 with the changes to armor and armor pen, and that is what made people realize that assassins are very strong choices by nature. It doesn't help that ignite/greivous wounds in general counters Swain, and that ignite is used by roughly 45% of players according to lolking (flash used by a whopping 57%) which means you are typically going to have minimum of 1 ignite on the other team, probably the top laner or the mid laner.