My Thoughts on Swain in Split 3

I share my first impressions of the new ranked split in league and what effects they might have on Swain. I go over all the changes i think will impact Swain.

0:00 Intro
0:30 Components
1:00 Mage Items
8:05 Tank Items
12:09 Boots
12:32 Runes
13:45 Closing thoughts and Build ideas
16:35 Swain Rework release

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[saddocatto]

Bro went from 16 years old to 30 to draco malphoy within a 1 year span. Respect

[ProdigyDH]

On cosmic drive:
It also now procs on ANY magic damage (for 4 seconds). So it activates on blackfire passive. If you hit blackfire. It gives speed for 4 seconds after the burn stops which is a VERY long lasting speed buff

[gregorwagner]

This Split has two Sides for us Grand Generals. We do love Tank Meta - as we shine in long fights and can melt Tanks with infinite R and burns. But we do NOT love Scaling Meta. As we dont want to fight A'Sols and Sennas at min50 every Match. So we just need to concentrate on our even better Mid Game Strenght now. Walk with E, Recall and Spend your Money and Play around Junlger pre 20min to close Games like a General.

[whosey]

Elite500 haircut in the building 😂 good video

[hansbystrom]

Nice. I also think Swain will do well in the slower meta. But you never know with burst mages, sometimes the poke meta takes over anyway..

[themaimer]

I honestly think this split might be THE swain split. If fights are longer then it's perfect, that's what swain is great at, I guess the only counter would be if split 3 meta will be a ranged meta then we're screwed.

[trueandfact]

Cosmic Drive is an excellent second item after Blackfire Torch, double duration. Its kind of Reverse Rylai, and higher skilled players might enjoy it better. (Rylais is still the goat)

[AlexKinstom]

Maligma/blackfire +2 tanks items+ rift maker, pick whatever rune you prefer on the lane you play, tank transcendence/ legend cdr plus AH shard, and you are good to go.

[jasoncardboard]

My take is we will see a big drain tank swain with conq runes, blackfire torch first, rylai's or cosmic second, liandry third, mr or armor items depending on enemy comp fourth and fifth and jaksho last.

[suta]

Honestly, u guys should try walking home listening to husum's voice lofi

[jasongoen]

i like this patch, and cant wait for rework. literally feel unkillable because everyones damage is nerfed and swain loves slow fights. swain doesnt care about the ap nerfs much because his damage is about effects/sustain passive consistent damage. overall i feel super strong and mid swain feels good. black fire torch is 100% the go to.

[francescocaffio]

We're walking with e with different items with this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[markopusic]

The cool thing is, unless Swain ends up being giga OP and Riot has to break his kneecaps, he'll likely remain untouched until 14 21 when his rework goes live with adjusted numbers.
Which means, we should get 2 patches of Swain domination here.

[gamingdealer]

I can see a blackfire, liandry's, riftmaker, spirit visage being a good build on him. maybe start riftmaker 2nd because it gives haste.

[tienatle]

1. Do you think no-mana build will still be possible with the PoM nerfs (personally I think this is a nerf for Swain)? It might feel really bad if you just run out of mana in a long fight and having to wait every 4 seconds for more mana.
2. Also, basically just replace any build that has Malignance with BFT right? Or it's Malignance + Rylai into tank items and BFT into full AP like before?

[michael]

Spirit vissage biggest change is buildpath buff. You get 35 mr instead of 25mr on spectre's cowl

[Tvovov]

Do you think you would buy Plated Steelpcaps for Bot lane Swain with the buff or mostly stick to Sorc shoes?

[ficaflinstons]

Malignance and cosmic drive still good.

[marcuionut]

Forgot to mention a very small thing - staff of flowing water gives more ap and no longer 10% speed. - looks like bad for Swain.

Also imperial mandate lost its speed, but I think this is good because usually mandate holder will speed his adc more than your support will speed you.

Idk?

[greenhardin]

Rocketbelt nerf… it’s over sudden impactbros…