Champion Select[]
- Pick
- Ban
- ▶️ "Do not confuse cowardice for wisdom."
Game Start[]
- Music upon start of the game
- ▶️ A shortened version of Swain's theme plays.
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "You can sit on a throne, that doesn't make you a ruler. It only means you have an arse."
- ▶️ "I have seen this place... A vision... A battle."
- ▶️ "The outcome was decided when they brought an army; and I brought a demon."
- ▶️ "If they already call me a villain, what will they call me when I succeed?"
- ▶️ "It is just as the spies described... A pity I had them executed."
- ▶️ "I look out upon humanity, and see only a feast."
- ▶️ "Dispatch these worms."
- ▶️ "Men are too weak to rule (laughs) but I am no man."
- ▶️ "I fought the dragons once... Now I have become one!"
- ▶️ "To end the world with fire. To rule with flame."
- ▶️ "At last, I may reveal myself to the dragonslayers."
- First Move with an Ally Bilgewater Champion
- ▶️ "Dead men tell tales that only I can hear."
- ▶️ "No quarter. That means 'no mercy' you cretins."
- ▶️ "A black flag above Bilgewater. A raven's wing."
- First Move with Enemy
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Destiny marches—like any man."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "There is always a choice. The truth is no exception."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A calculated risk is no risk at all."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Decisions have consequences. This I know well."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "One can read the future in battle lines, assuming one can read."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "We are at war. Do not forget it."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The mud on our boots will hide the bloodstains."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A Noxian knows who he is. And what he must do."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The few, for the many."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Is it not enough for Noxus to be strong?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "To redraw the map, the blood of soldiers must be the ink."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I cannot lead if I allow fools to stumble about before me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I suppose I should be grateful they have the decency to fear me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They expect me to play fairly... We aren't even playing the same game."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "When their lives flash before their eyes, so do their secrets."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I could kill them all. But it would be far crueler to show them that I am right."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They are blind to the cold logic of this world."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I have killed more men with words than by my own hand. Not for lack of trying."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Tell me again all the crimes I've committed, and I'll tell you the price of victory."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A new vantage, is all the advantage I need."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The more they try to kill me, the more they reveal I am on the right path."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They are five steps from realizing: I am ten steps ahead."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Would they even struggle to survive, if they knew what was to come?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I've heard what they call me. What a waste of their final words."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I was born a patrician. I became a soldier."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Never make a bargain with a demon... that you intend to keep."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "It is not the visions that haunt me—but what I do not see."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "What is one more demon, when I already have so many?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I peer through the darkness others fear."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A riddle wrapped in a mystery, hidden within us all."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A voice whispers in the shadows. Though few can hear it."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The old wounds ache. They are reminders."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Hmph... I do so enjoy explaining things to idiots."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The shadows of our empire, are cast by a raven's wings."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "After the battle, the ravens feast."
- Moving alongside Multiple Allies - Ally Team is Ahead
- 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ "Drive them from the battlefield!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "We have the momentum."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Who is it we're fighting? I only see their backs."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Any man who must say 'We are winning'… is not truly winning."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Leave the survivors to their officers."
- ▶️ ▶️ "They flee Noxus on the roads we built!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "One more push, and they will break."
- ▶️ "Master fear, to master the dragon."
- ▶️ "Dragons cannot inherit the earth... If it is already theirs."
- ▶️ "They falter before my dragons."
- Moving alongside Multiple Allies - Ally Team is Behind
- 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ "Every moment we do not kill them, their advantage grows."
- ▶️ ▶️ "They move swiftly, for all the coins weighing them down."
- ▶️ ▶️ "The dagger is at our throats. But their hands quiver."
- ▶️ ▶️ "They think they have won. Prove them wrong."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Are you not children of Noxus?"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Do not fight for conquest, fight to survive!"
- ▶️ "I too refuse to kneel... But it is only a matter of time."
- ▶️ "Know when to die!"
- ▶️ "They will not break. Perhaps they will burn."
- Moving alongside Multiple Allies - Teams are Even
- 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ "The battle is yet to be decided."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Patience is a virtue, but it has its limits."
- ▶️ ▶️ "The advantage is ours, if we take it."
- ▶️ ▶️ "A stalemate. How quaint."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Not losing is not winning either."
- ▶️ ▶️ "A truce in all but name."
- ▶️ "It is wise to fear the future. It belongs to them."
- ▶️ "Humankind. Dragonkind. Both hang in the balance."
- ▶️ "A standstill. One would never know the world burns around us..."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your trust maybe misplaced, old friend. But it is appreciated.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "It was only a matter of time, Darius. Do what you must."
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You stood by me when I was outcast, so I stood by you when you were drunk. In spite of the stench.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Fame has gone to your head, and found ample room within."
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "We both move pawns in a grand game. And look at that—It seems I'm winning."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You see every flaw in me and you do not even blink. A bit unwise, wouldn't you say?
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Life would be boring without surprises. You, certainly keep things... interesting."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I suppose this makes us enemies with benefits."
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with
- First Encounter with a Black Rose Member
- First Encounter with a Demacian
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All roads lead to Noxus—but all visions, to Demacia."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "There is nothing noteworthy about Demacia, but that in itself is worth noting."
- First Encounter with a Demon
- First Encounter with a Noxian
Taunt[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I would not ask of anyone what I would not do myself."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Every day I rule, Noxus becomes a more perfect expression of my will."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The demon is always in the details."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "There can be no unity without purpose; and there is one all men are born to."
- Taunt Response
- Taunt Response to
- Taunt Response to or
Joke[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I have to know who has a crush on whom."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Which one of you is again?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Caw caw caw caw caw. There, are you satisfied?"
- ▶️ ▶️ "My birds are hungry."
- ▶️ "I'll eat your soul myself."
- Joke Response
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I am not smiling, I am threatening to smile. It is still a threat."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I own birds cleverer than you."
Laugh[]
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 30% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain huffs.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain huffs.
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The right to rule, held, in my hand."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Pity stays the hand of the merciful, but not mine."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You dare oppose Noxus?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Weak of body; weak of mind."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "This is the least of my crimes."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The ends of war are death."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Diplomacy is a subtle art."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "And to think, they called me a 'cripple'."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Incompetence surrounds me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Try to die with dignity."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "How tedious."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Strength is the only teacher."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Do not try my patience."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "If you insist on dying."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A conquered nation, is a loyal one."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "We must remind them of their place."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You lack discipline."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A petty squabble for pettier men."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Empire above all."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Submit."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I will not tolerate interference!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "This will be my offering."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Sacrifices must be made."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You would do well to die, before my ravens find you."
Ability Casting[]
Using []
Collecting a Soul Fragment[]
- 75% chance, 25 seconds cooldown, 1000 units
- ▶️ ▶️ "Forfeit your life."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Death's hand."
- ▶️ ▶️ "In death, the veil is lifted."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Their whispers itch at the back of my mind."
- ▶️ ▶️ "What have the ravens brought me?"
- ▶️ ▶️ "I am not done with you yet."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Your soul was already mine."
- ▶️ "The fire of conquest."
- ▶️ "Obey."
- ▶️ "Their memories burn away."
- ▶️ "An echo in flames."
- ▶️ "Conflagration."
- ▶️ "Fellfire within us."
- ▶️ "Snuffed out."
- ▶️ "Mere flame remains."
- ▶️ "Bring me their spark."
- ▶️ "Souls, flame."
Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy[]
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from
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- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Bilgewater Champion
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Black Rose Member
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Darkin
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Demon
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Freljordian
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from an Ionian
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Piltovan
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Shadow Isles Champion
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Vastayan
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Void Champion
- Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Zaunite
Using []
- 25% chance
Using []
- Swain whispers an incomprehensible demonic spell. (The voicelines are audible for all players that have sight of Vision of Empire's area of effect.)
Using []
- 50% chance
- On Cast
- On Return
- Upon Pulling
Using []
- Upon Deactivation
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain grunts in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain grunts in great effort.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain grunts in great effort.
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "That, is one way to surrender."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Victory awaits."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Another piece cleared from the board."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death is its own prophecy."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Another disappointment."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The raven was a portent. Their time had come."
- ▶️ "The sooner we kill them all, the sooner we can leave these forsaken wastes."
- Killing
- ▶️ "The Leviathan belongs to me!"
- Killing a Bilgewater Champion
- ▶️ "Their lives are the plunder."
- Killing a Demacian
- Killing a Noxian
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "One less enemy within."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You were no longer useful."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "In death, you will kneel."
- Scoring a Pentakill
- Destroying a Turret
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let us end the siege."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "One less place to hide."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Their defences crumble."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Stone is not strength."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "What Noxus takes, it will defend."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let them find hope in the rubble."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Prepare, and victory is inevitable."
- ▶️ ▶️ "All according to plan."
- ▶️ ▶️ "A one-armed man needs all the help he can get."
- ▶️ ▶️ "More important than heroes, are deeds."
- ▶️ ▶️ "Witness the strength of Noxus!"
- ▶️ ▶️ "Worth its weight in lives."
- ▶️ ▶️ "A monument to our victory."
- ▶️ "It is mine, or it is no one's."
- ▶️ "Only ashes remain."
- ▶️ "Dragon claimed!"
- Killing the
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "We have civilized the beast."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "More than men must kneel to Noxus."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Its strength is ours."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death comes to even the most fierce."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I almost pity the brute."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A savage roar, silenced."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Congratulations. We've outsmarted a beast."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You've exceeded my expectations."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Perhaps a promotion is in order. How would you like your own warband?"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I owe you a debt. ...That is not as ominous as it sounds."
Other Gameplay[]
- Placing a Ward
- 20% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Gathering intelligence."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I suppose it's easier than conquering a demon."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I never stop planning."
- ▶️ ▶️ "A raven's eye view."
[]
- 75% chance, 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "More than what we do not understand, we fear being understood."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Some say the darkness stares back... because they cannot see me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The more I see, the more I realize how much remains hidden."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Secrets whispered in the shadow... have a way of reaching my ears.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I often kill in my visions, when I close my eyes. Do not come near."
Death[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Only this, and nothing more..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain gasps and exhales.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain gasps and exhales.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Swain gasps and exhales.
- Respawn
- 75% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I have already walked the halls of death, in the Immortal Bastion."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "They think they have won? Pathetic."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A minor setback; nothing more."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Am I reborn? The truth is rarely so simple."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "It is still watching."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "It is there in the silence after battle. It is there in me."
Co-op vs. AI Responses[]
- Match Start
- "Bear witness to the strength of Noxus!"
- Special (against player )
- "Pitiful prince!"
- Player Team Victory
- "Your tactics were cunning!"
- Player Team Defeat
- "GG!"
Trivia[]
- Swain's and LeBlanc's relationship is a mysterious one. In essence, they are rivals that share a common goal, apparent in all of their interactions.
- ▶️ "I have already walked the halls of death, in the Immortal Bastion." may reference the fact that Swain has been involved with the organization and participated in their rites in the past, but he and the Black Rose, of which LeBlanc is the matron, had a falling-out.
- Swain's quotes when collecting a soul fragment give insights into multiple champions that hadn't been revealed at the time he was released.
- ▶️ "They fight the mist above the seas, never looking beneath." refers to .
- ▶️ "She claimed it was the Frost Queen's grave. They believed her." refers to faking the origin of her bow rather than getting it from Avarosa's grave, which was later shown in Warmother, where Ashe took the bow from a nameless grave.
- ▶️ "The payment for her suffering in Shurima: a black rose." implies that is a Black Rose member, which was later stated in her biography update.
- ▶️ "His secrets died with his sculptor." refers to the misconception that petricite suppresses magic rather than absorb it, bringing to life once he has absorbed enough magic, which was shown in the Lux comics.
- ▶️ "So he's heard the rumours: The girl who came back." refers to .
- ▶️ "Any man who must say 'We are winning'… is not truly winning." and ▶️ "A one-armed man needs all the help he can get." are references to Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones. The voice actor is also part of the show's cast, portraying Randyll Tarly.
- ▶️ "Only this, and nothing more" is a reference to the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
- ▶️ "It is better to be feared than loved, Vastaya. strongly resembles Niccolò Machiavelli's quote "It is far safer to be feared than loved." in the treatise The Prince; it is implied that it is better if one cannot be both.
- ▶️ "They move swiftly, for all the coins weighing them down.", ▶️ "The mind is the weapon. You are unarmed.", ▶️ "Fame has gone to your head, and found ample room within.", and ▶️ "You're the only man I know who believes his own words, even after he's said them." reference Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
- ▶️ "Do not confuse cowardice for wisdom.", ▶️ "You can sit on a throne, that doesn't make you a ruler. It only means you have an arse.", ▶️ "They expect me to play fairly... We aren't even playing the same game.", ▶️ "Patience is a virtue but it has its limits.", ▶️ "There is nothing noteworthy about Demacia, but that in itself is worth noting.", and evidently ▶️ "I was born a patrician. I became a soldier." references Lord Havelock Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork, specifically. Swain and Vetinari were both born into patrician families.
- A few of Swain's lines are altered from his . Some of them specifically intend to underline the difference in character with his full relaunch.
- ▶️ "A calculated risk is no risk at all." is similar to ▶️ "A calculated risk."
- ▶️ "They are five steps from realizing: I am ten steps ahead." is similar to ▶️ "I'm five steps ahead of you."
- ▶️ "My birds are hungry." is quoted from ▶️ "My bird is hungry."
- ▶️ "You dare oppose Noxus?" is quoted from ▶️ "They dare oppose Noxus?"
- ▶️ "Another disappointment." is quoted from ▶️ "Another opponent, another disappointment."
- One of his joke lines ▶️ "Caw caw caw caw caw. There, are you satisfied?" references his old joke ▶️ "Think logically for one seco-- CAW CAW CAW-CAW-CAW!".
- Swain shares quotes with:
- ▶️ ▶️ "Do not try my patience."
- ▶️ "The early bird guts the worm" is based on a famous idiom, "The early bird gets the worm."
- In the Polish localization, his pick quote "Rozdziobią was kruki, wrony." (You are goning to be pecked out by crows and ravens), is a reference to Stefan Żeromski's 1895 novel of the same title.