Swain (Legends of Runeterra)

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Swain For Alternate Card
Region	Noxus
Type	Champion
Cost	5 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fearsome
Description	Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to the enemy Nexus.
Level Up	You've dealt 14 non-combat damage.
3 6
Collecting & Crafting
This card is collectible, and costs 3000 or 1
Flavour
"A power beyond mortal understanding gave me the vision to see what most cannot. I peer through the darkness others fear."
Expansion	Set 2 - Rising Tides
Rarity	Champion
ID	02NX007
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary Censored

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Swain For Alternate Card
Region	Noxus
Type	Champion
Cost	5 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fearsome Overwhelm
Description	When we deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus.
4 7
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
"No sacrifice is too great to see my vision for Noxus fulfilled."
Expansion	Set 2 - Rising Tides
ID	02NX007T2
Artist	SIXMOREVODKA
Artwork	Primary Censored

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Swain's Ravenous Flock For Alternate Card
Region	Noxus
Type	Champion Spell
Cost	1 Mana
Card text
Keywords	Fast
Description	Deal 4 to a unit if it's damaged or Stunned. Create a 5Swain in your deck.
Collecting & Crafting
This card cannot be collected.
Flavour
Listen. Can you hear them? The thunder of a thousand beating wings.
Expansion	Set 2 - Rising Tides
ID	02NX007T1
Artist	Kudos Productions
Artwork	Primary Censored

Notes

• Non-combat damage includes any damage which is not the result of a strike between attackers and blockers. It includes:
  • Spell, Skill, and Trap damage
  • Self-damage
  • Non-Combat Strikes
    • Strikes from spells that cause strikes, such as 2 Single Combat and 3 Strafing Strike, occur outside of direct attacking and blocking and are thus considered non-combat damage, even if they occur between attackers and blockers.
• Swain's damaging effect triggers healing from Lifesteal.
• Swain can be drawn by 7 The Leviathan.

Trivia

• 4 Citybreaker is featured in the artwork of 5Swain (Level 1).
• 5 Decisive Maneuver is featured in 5Swain's level up animation

Skins

• Original
• Infernal

Original Swain: Base Skin

1 / 28-Apr-2020

Level 1

"A power beyond mortal understanding gave me the vision to see what most cannot. I peer through the darkness others fear."

Level 2

"No sacrifice is too great to see my vision for Noxus fulfilled."

Level 2

Listen. Can you hear them? The thunder of a thousand beating wings.

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Infernal Swain: Common Skin

Arise in a blaze of cruelty.

Features:

• 2 new artworks

This skin is available for purchase.

700 / 30-Mar-2022

Level 1

Patience, my companions. Let the embers gather. We shall kindle the flames when the moment is right.

Level 2

At last, every piece is in its proper place. Now, rise to the sky, unfurl your wings, and let the inferno rage.

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Quotes

Summoned

• ▶️   "Loyalty through conquest."
• ▶️   "Master your demons."
• ▶️   "By my hand will Noxus rise."
• ▶️   "Glory, courage - excuses for war."
• ▶️   "Born a patrician, I became a soldier."
• ▶️   "Fear the power you do not see."
• ▶️   "The few for the many."
• ▶️   "Vision to see what others cannot."

Enemy 3Irelia present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Irelia: "And by our blades will it fall."
• ▶️   Swain: "Loyalty through conquest."
  • ▶️   Irelia: "We will never bow to tyrants like you."
• ▶️   Irelia: "Noxians on our shores!?"
  • ▶️   Swain: "Bring these lands to their knees."

Enemy 6Jarvan IV present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Jarvan IV: "And by mine will it fall."

Enemy 4Kindred present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Lamb: "He owes us the remainder."
    • Wolf: "I want it all!"

Allied 3LeBlanc present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   LeBlanc: "By which hand? The man's, or the demon's?"
• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   LeBlanc"You flatter me, 'Grand General'"

Enemy 3LeBlanc present

• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   LeBlanc: "You know nothing of real power, dear boy."

Allied 5Lee Sin present

• ▶️   Lee Sin: "My cooperation does not imply forgiveness."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Nor does mine imply respect."

Enemy 5Lee Sin present

• ▶️   Lee Sin: "You will reap what you have sown, Noxian!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "Victory?"
• ▶️   Lee Sin: "Get. Out. Of my homeland!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "The dragon has fire after-all."

Enemy 3Lulu present

• ▶️   Swain: "Master your demons."
  • ▶️   Lulu: "Demons are easy, mister. Ellafloops, are hard."

Enemy 4Maokai present

• ▶️   Maokai: "Noxus will not conquer the Shadow Isles."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Curious you think we'd seek to."

Allied 5Quinn present

• ▶️   Quinn: "I'm to fight alongside a Noxian?"
  • ▶️   Swain: "I'll accept your apologies after our victory."

Enemy 5Quinn present

• ▶️   Swain: "Surrender! Little Demacian."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "Die! Condescending Noxian."
• ▶️   Swain: "Demacia's walls will crumble."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "Then I'll have a clean shot at your head."

Enemy 7Sion present

• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   Sion: "No; Fear me, Jericho!"

Allied 7 The Leviathan present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   The Leviathan: "Grand General."

Allied 2 Imperial Demolitionist present

• ▶️   Swain: "By my hand will Noxus rise."
  • ▶️   Imperial Demolitionist: "Lead us to victory, Grand General."

Allied 6 Lord Broadmane present

• ▶️   Swain: "The few for the many."
  • ▶️   Lord Broadmane: "It won't be much longer till these peasants fall in line."
• ▶️   Swain: "Fear the power you do not see."
  • ▶️   Lord Broadmane: "Rest assured, my lord, they'll never see it coming."

Enemy 4 Noxian Defector present

• ▶️   Swain: "Pledge or perish."
  • ▶️   Noxian Defector: "I perished long ago, my hate is all that's left!"

Enemy 8 Zinneia, Steel Crescendo present

• ▶️   Swain: "Born a patrician, I became a soldier."
  • ▶️   Zinneia: "A snob and a brute? I expected no more."

Sees a Unit Summoned

Allied 6Darius

• ▶️   Darius: "I'll handle this myself."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Do not disappoint."
• ▶️   Darius: "I have my orders."
  • ▶️   Swain: "My favorite kind of soldier."

Allied 3Draven

• ▶️   Draven: "Time for the main event."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Fame went to your head and found ample room within."

Allied 5Gangplank

• ▶️   Gangplank: "Grand General! Stark look fer a man of influence."
  • ▶️   Swain: "You chose wealth. I choose power!"
• ▶️   Gangplank: "What I can't have, I'll burn."
  • ▶️   Swain: "A rough-hewn bully with a talent for destruction."

Enemy 3Irelia present

• ▶️   Swain: "How long can they resist while their cities crumble?"
  • ▶️   Irelia: "You will never quell our spirit."
• ▶️   Swain: "Let them find hope in the rubble."
  • ▶️   Irelia: "You dare defile these sacred lands!"

Allied 5Lee Sin

• ▶️   Swain: "Perhaps I can convice you of Noxian virtues."
  • ▶️   Lee Sin: "You could... if Noxus possessed any."

Enemy 5Lee Sin

• ▶️   Swain: "We will make Ionia ours, or we will make it rubble."
  • ▶️   Lee Sin: "This land cannot be conquered."
• ▶️   Swain: "Stand as a Noxian or die as an Ionian."
  • ▶️   Lee Sin: "I made my choice long ago."

Enemy 4Maokai

• ▶️   Swain: "Your cause is lost, treant. Why fight?"
  • ▶️   Maokai: "Because no one else will!"

Enemy 3Miss Fortune

• ▶️   Swain: "Bilgewater will soon fly the Noxian banner."
  • ▶️   Miss Fortune: "Not while I've got bullets left!"

Allied 5Quinn

• ▶️   Swain: "Today, you fight with me. Tomorrow, for me."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "That's quite an imagination, Noxian."
• ▶️   Swain: "Always a pleasure to meet a fellow bird-lover."
  • ▶️   Quinn: "Don't lump me in with you. That's… blugh."

Enemy 5Quinn

• ▶️   Quinn: "In defense of our homeland!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "A pointless pursuit for a tiresome place."

Allied 7 The Leviathan

• ▶️   The Leviathan: "Orders, sir!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "Bring forth our army."
• ▶️   "Destination in sight!"
  • ▶️   "Bring these lands to their knees."
• ▶️   "Prepare the cargo!"
  • ▶️   "There is no excess when victory is at stake."

Allied 6 Aurok Glinthorn

• ▶️   Aurok Glinthorn: "They are weak. I can feel it."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Let their flaws inform your strategies."
• ▶️   Aurok Glinthorn: "Empire! Battle by battle."
  • ▶️   Swain: "I've taught you well, my boy."

Allied 6 Armored Tuskrider

• ▶️   "Hardly a subtle tool for conquest."
• ▶️   "Humble creatures remade for destruction."

Allied 4 Citybreaker

• ▶️   "They believe that they are safe behind their walls."
• ▶️   "How long can they resist while their cities crumble."

Allied 2 Imperial Demolitionist

• ▶️   Imperial Demolitionist: "For the empire."
  • ▶️   Swain: "The few for the many."
• ▶️   Imperial Demolitionist: "Warmason reporting for duty."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Bestow upon them the gifts of our empire."

Allied 3 Iron Ballista

• ▶️   "Let them find hope in the rubble."
• ▶️   "Courage is useless against a well-aimed shot."
• ▶️   "Their walls cannot protect them."

Allied 5 Legion General

• ▶️   Legion General: "All will kneel before Noxus."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Your eyes tell of battle."
• ▶️   Legion General: "My warhost awaits."
  • ▶️   Swain: "Your service is not forgotten."

Allied 4 Legion Veteran

• ▶️   Legion Veteran: "I helped build this empire."
  • ▶️   Swain: "We no longer merely fight wars - we declare them."
• ▶️   Legion Veteran: "I helped build this empire."
  • ▶️   Swain: "We know the price and prizes of conquest."

Enemy 4 Noxian Defector

• ▶️   Noxian Defector: "You took everything from me!"
  • ▶️   Swain: "The few for the many."

Level Up

• ▶️   Level Up Theme
• ▶️   "Empire above all!"
• ▶️   "Kneel."
• ▶️   "Victory awaits!"
• ▶️   "Witness the strength of Noxus!"

Attack Declared

• ▶️   "Pledge or perish."
• ▶️   "Witness strength."
• ▶️   "We are at war."
• ▶️   "Leave them nothing."

Nexus Strike effect

• ▶️   "Such little lives."
• ▶️   "I will break them."
• ▶️   "Bleed for Noxus."

Block Declared

• ▶️   "You lack discipline."
• ▶️   "You dare oppose Noxus?"
• ▶️   "How tedious."
• ▶️   "Know your place."
• ▶️   "Justify yourself."

Sees a Spell or Skill Resolve

Allied  Black Powder Grenade

• ▶️   "Sacrifices must be made."
• ▶️   "Victory at any cost."

Allied 1 Ravenous Flock

• ▶️   "After the battle, the ravens feast."
• ▶️   "They should thank me for the favor."

Allied 3 Death's Hand

• ▶️   "Their time has come."
• ▶️   "Merely pawns in a greater game."

Allied 6 Decimate

• ▶️   "Our boots are on their throats!"
• ▶️   "One less place to hide!"

Death

• ▶️   "My legacy..."
• ▶️   "Our vision..."
• ▶️   Swain groans.

Turn timer appears

Allied turn timer

• ▶️   "Patience is a tactician's greatest tool."

Enemy turn timer

• ▶️   "Indecision is the first of many weaknesses."

Removed from Combat or Play

• ▶️   "Incompetence surrounds me."

Brought back to Combat or Play

• ▶️   "Show them their place."

Victory

• ▶️   "My conflicts end only one way."
• ▶️   "History will remember us."
• ▶️   "We have done what is needed."
• ▶️   "Raise the Noxtoraa! Remember this day!"

Defeat

• ▶️   "A minor setback."
• ▶️   "This is not the end."

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Change Log

Swain
V4.11	Level Up becomes: "You've dealt 14+ non-combat damage." Old Level Up: "You've dealt 16+ non-combat damage."
V4.8	Level Up becomes: "You've dealt 16+ non-combat damage." Old Level Up: "You've dealt 12+ non-combat damage."
V3.19	Power reduced to 3 from 4.
V3.16	Power increased to 4 from 3.
V1.1	Undocumented: Level Up becomes: "You've dealt 12 non-combat damage." Old Level Up: "When we've done 12 non-combat damage this game."
V1.0	Added.

Swain (Level 2)
V3.19	Power reduced to 4 from 5.
V3.16	Power increased to 5 from 4. Now gain Overwhelm.
V2.7	Text becomes: "When you deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus." Old Text: "When you deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the Strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus."
V1.1	Undocumented: Text becomes: "When you deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the Strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies and the enemy Nexus." Old Text: "When we deal non-combat damage to the enemy Nexus, Stun the Strongest backrow enemy. Nexus Strike: Deal 3 to all enemies."
V1.0	Added.

Swain's Ravenous Flock
V1.16	Text becomes: "Deal 4 to a unit if it's damaged or Stunned. Create a 5Swain in your deck." Old Text: "Deal 4 to a unit if it's damaged or Stunned. Shuffle a 5Swain into your deck."
V1.0	Added.

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