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Swain
GameplaySwain is a champion in League of Legends.[1]
Abilities
- Ravenous Flock's pull requires the target to be immobilized by an enemy source.
- Self-applied or allied-applied immobilizes do not allow Ravenous Flock to cast against the champion. Those applied by the neutral team (e.g. Dragon's initial knock back) can be targeted.
- Ravenous Flock can be used against cc-immune or displacement immune targets that are affected by an ongoing immobilization. This will apply the damage, but the target will be prevented from being pulled.
- Self-applied or allied-applied
- The crows carrying the souls will only be seen by the enemies if they have vision of Swain.
- The pull will interrupt channels at the very beginning, but does not keep the target stunned for the rest of the movement.
- Channels can be started successfully during the pull, provided the previous crowd control does not prevent them still.
- Death's Hand will still cast and deal damage if Swain dies during the cast time.
- Death's Hand will cast from wherever Swain is at the end of the cast time.
- The total damage to a single target will be split evenly among each bolt that hits, meaning that hitting with more bolts will deal less damage per hit (but more overall damage).
- Spell shield will block all bolts.
- Spell shield does not prevent Swain from ripping a Soul Fragment.
- Vision of Empire will also grant Soul Fragments from hitting clones.
- Swain will not receive the Soul Fragments if Vision of Empire hits enemy champions while he is dead.
- Vision of Empire is visible and audible to enemies through the fog of war.
- Hitting an enemy champion with Vision of Empire collects nearby Soul Fragments.
- Spell shields block either the pass-through or the detonation, not both.
- Nevermove will fire from wherever Swain was at the start of the cast time.
- Notes
- Swain can still move during Demonic Ascension's cast time.
- Notes
- Manually casted Demon Flare counts as an ability activation for the purposes of on-cast effects such as Spellblade and stacking Force Pulse.
- If Demon Flare triggers automatically, it will perform its effects without being considered an ability activation.
- Demon Flare passes through champions. Effects like Yasuo's Wind Wall and Braum's Unbreakable will block the portion of the nova they intercept.
- Demonflare will cast from wherever Swain is at the end of the cast time.
Patch history
- For the expanded patch notes, see here.
- Tyrant Swain
- Bug Fix: Hitting him triggers more metallic sounds.
- Crystal Rose Swain
- Demonflare
- Bug Fix: Fixed an SFX bug where if he used it and started draining a target's soul, the target would not hear the stereo whisper SFX or the soul drain start SFX.
- Stats
- Base armor increased to 23 from 22.72.
- Stats
- Base movement speed reduced to 325 from 335.
- Ravenous Flock
- Cooldown changed to 10 seconds at all levels from 12 / 9 / 6 (based on level).
- New Effect: Cooldown is now affected by cooldown reduction.
- Removed: No longer restores 4 / 5.5 / 7% (based on level) maximum mana.
- Bug Fix: Now requires the target to be immobilized by an enemy source.
- Can no longer pull enemies launched by Blast Cones triggered by themselves or their teammates.
- Undocumented: Can no longer pull other enemies affected by self-CC or CC from their allies.
- Can no longer pull enemies launched by
- Death's Hand
- Cooldown reduced to 9 / 7.5 / 6 / 4.5 / 3 seconds from 10 / 8.5 / 7 / 5.5 / 4.
- Angle between bolts reduced to 8 from 10.
- New Effect: Bolts can now pierce through champions.
- Vision of Empire
- Range increased to 5500 / 6000 / 6500 / 7000 / 7500 units from 3500 at all ranks.
- Base damage reduced to 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 from 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300.
- Mana cost reduced to 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 from 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130.
- Nevermove
- Cooldown changed to 10 seconds at all ranks from 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.
- Mana cost reduced to 50 at all ranks from 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80.
- Demonic Ascension
- Bug Fix: Tooltip in the collection tab has been updated to accurately reflect its latest state.
- Demonflare
- Indicator added to show recast ability timer.
- General
- Recommended items updated.
- Demonflare
- Bug Fix: Tooltip now displays the correct amount of health drained.
- Death's Hand
- Target range increased to 725 from 625.
- Stats
- Health growth reduced to 85 from 90.
- Base attack range reduced to 525 from 550.
- Ravenous Flock
- Removed: No longer stores up to 5 Soul Fragments to empower Demonflare.
- New Effect: Now permanently stores Soul Fragments, increasing his maximum health by 5 for each Soul Fragment collected.
- New Effect: Collecting a Soul Fragment now restores 4 / 5.5 / 7% (based on level) of his maximum mana.
- Removed: No longer stores up to 5 Soul Fragments to empower
- Death's Hand
- Removed: No longer restores 3% maximum mana upon killing a unit.
- New Effect: Bolts now always pierce through minions and stop on impact with champions.
- Cooldown increased to 10 / 8.5 / 7 / 5.5 / 4 seconds from 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5.
- Effect radius reduced to 625 units from 725.
- Angle between bolts increased to 10 from 8.
- Demonic Ascension
- New Effect: Now has a mana cost of 100.
- Bonus health reduced to 125 / 200 / 275 from 150 / 275 / 400.
- New Effect: Now doubles the health gained from Soul Fragments for the duration.
- Minion and monster healing reduction increased to 90% from 80%.
- New Effect: Now drains all targets within the radius, including stealthed units.
- Removed: No longer has a healing threshold of 125 / 300 / 450 (based on level) health to cast Demonflare.
- New Effect: Can now cast Demonflare after draining any amount of health.
- Demonflare
- Removed: No longer deals 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 21% AP) magic damage per Soul Fragment up to a maximum of 225 / 300 / 375 (+ 105% AP).
- New Effect: Now deals 100 / 150 / 200 (+ 50% AP) magic damage plus 37.5% of the amount of health drained during Demonic Ascension, up to a cap of 200 / 300 / 400 (+ 100% AP).
- Dragon Master Swain
- Bug Fix: Skin-specific VO has been restored.
- Demonflare
- AP ratio per fragment reduced to 21% AP from 27% AP.
- Maximum AP ratio reduced to 105% AP from 135% AP.
- AP ratio per fragment reduced to 21% AP from 27% AP.
- Nevermove
- Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly deals double damage to epic monsters.
- Stats
- Base mana increased to 468 from 374.
- Mana growth reduced to 28.5 from 57.
- Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 6.
- Nevermove
- Bug Fix: Now only gives one stack for Phase Rush purposes.
- Bug Fix: Now only gives one stack for
- Ravenous Flock
- Icon can now be pinged to show allies the remaining cooldown on the pull.
- Death's Hand
- Cooldown increased to 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5 seconds from 5.5 / 4.75 / 4 / 3.25 / 2.5.
- Base damage reduced to 55 / 75 / 95 / 115 / 135 from 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145.
- Tyrant Swain
- Bug Fix: No longer plays his base VO lines after killing an objective.
- Death's Hand
- Cooldown reduced to 5.5 / 4.75 / 4 / 3.25 / 2.5 seconds from 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5.
- Vision of Empire
- Effect radius increased to 325 from 265.
- Nevermove
- Radius increased to 100 from 70.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Nevermove was starting its return a frame too slowly.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where Nevermove would sometimes not root its primary target hit by the return portion.
- Demonic Ascension
- New Effect: Demon Flare now passes through champions. Effects like Yasuo's Wind Wall and Braum's Unbreakable still block the portion of the nova they intercept.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where his ultimate cooldown indicator was displaying as always available to his allies.
- New Effect: Demon Flare now passes through champions. Effects like
- Vision of Empire
- Mana cost reduced to 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130 from 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 / 130.
- Demonic Ascension
- Heal per second increased to 20 / 35 / 50 from 15 / 30 / 45.
- New Effect: Cooldown and Soul fragments are fully refunded if Swain dies during the channel time of Demonic Ascension.
- Bug Fix: The Ultimate Hat now properly reduces Demonic Ascension's cooldown.
- Health restored require to cast Demonflare reduced to 125 / 300 / 450 (based on level) from 150 / 300 / 450 (based on level).
- Area of effect starts slightly more in the direction of Swain's movement at high movement speeds.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he could remain in Demonic Ascension when affected by Lulu's Whimsy.
- V8.3 - Relaunch
- General
- Title changed to the Noxian Grand General from the Master Tactician.
- Complete visual upgrade across all skins.
- New splash artwork for Original Swain, Northern Front Swain, Bilgewater Swain, and Tyrant Swain.
- New voice over.
- New lore.
- Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 58 from 52.04.
- Base health reduced to 525 from 528.
- Base health regeneration reduced to 7 from 7.842.
- Attack damage growth reduced to 2.7 from 3.
- Health growth reduced to 90 from 102.
- Mana growth increased to 57 from 47.
- Base attack range increased to 550 from 500..
- Ravenous Flock (Innate)
- Ravenous: Swain can periodically target a nearby immobilized enemy champion to rip out a Soul Fragment from them, dealing 20 − 105 (based on level) (+ 30% AP) magic damage and pulling them X-units towards him.
- Flock: Enemy champion takedowns leave a Soul Fragment behind. Swain restores 4% / 5.5% / 7% (based on level) maximum health whenever he collects a Soul Fragment, and can store up to 5 at once.
- Static Cooldown: 12 / 9 / 6 (based on level) seconds.
- Ravenous: Swain can periodically target a nearby
- Death's Hand (Q)
- Active: Swain unleashes five bolts of eldritch power in the target direction, dealing 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145 (+ 40% AP) magic damage to the first enemies they hit. Enemies can intercept multiple bolts, taking 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% bonus damage per additional bolt.
- Bolts that kill their targets continue onward and restore 3% maximum mana. This can repeat indefinitely until the bolts reach their maximum distance.
- Mana Cost: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85.
- Cooldown: 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5 seconds.
- Vision of Empire (W)
- Active: Swain summons a demonic eye at the target area that reveals it for 2 seconds before exploding, dealing 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+ 70% AP) magic damage to all enemies hit, halved against non-champions, and slowing them by 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65% for 2.5 seconds.
- Enemy champions are revealed for 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 seconds and each grant Swain a Soul Fragment.
- Mana Cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 / 130.
- Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 seconds.
- Active: Swain summons a demonic eye at the target area that
- Nevermove (E)
- Active: Swain launches a demonic wave in the target direction, dealing 35 / 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 (+ 25% AP) magic damage to enemies it passes through.
- Upon reaching its maximum distance, the wave returns to Swain, detonating at the first enemy hit, dealing 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 (+ 25% AP) magic damage to all nearby enemies and rooting them for 1.5 seconds.
- Mana Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80.
- Cooldown: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 seconds.
- Demonic Ascension (R)
- Active: Swain frees the demon within for 12 seconds, gaining 150 / 275 / 400 bonus health.
- While Demonic Ascension is active, Swain drains the 3 enemies closest to him, prioritizing champions, dealing 35 / 50 / 65 (+ 14.167% AP) magic damage to them each second, and healing himself for 15 / 30 / 45 (+ 16% AP) health for each enemy hit, reduced by 80% against minions and monsters.
- After restoring 150 / 300 / 450 (based on level) health with Demonic Ascension, Swain can end its effects early to cast Demonflare, and automatically does so at the end of its duration.
- Demonflare: Swain consumes all of his Soul Fragments, dealing 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 27% AP) magic damage per fragment to all nearby enemies based on their number.
- Second Cast Cost: All Soul Fragments.
- Cooldown: 120 seconds.
See also
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