Phreak is SAVING Swain?! - Reaction & Thoughts on Phreak's Swain Rework

[@HusumLOL]

First off: I don't wanna see any form of Hate towards Phreak in the comments. I think he is doing an amazing job on the balance team and his transparency on his weekly videos have been a joy to follow. I cut out some parts to make the video a little shorter and create better flow, so if you want to watch his full video here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnSvZqRmorqkbbM This is all the newest info I have for Swain so hope you have learned something new listening to Phreak and also me sharing my thoughts here and there. I think the Swain rework has insane potential to make swain more balanced and fun for everybody :) Have a good Sunday 💕

[@kyokusanagi5477]

Why they would show hate?

[@HusumLOL]

@@kyokusanagi5477 He has been used as a scapegoat by parts of the league community because they are angry at some of the changes he has made, since he is the face of balance team all negative changes are channeled towards him sadly. I think he has done very well personally 🙏

[@kyokusanagi5477]

​@@HusumLOL seems like they are genshin community 😂, only complaining

[@darkodjordjevic2789]

Phreak is restarded and it's facts.

[@lukewilson1282]

@@HusumLOL Honestly incredibly based position. Too many league players take for granted the level of transparency and willingness to communicate that Rioters have shown. It's something that is by no means is required, yet they still do it so that we can get amazing breakdowns like this about what direction they are taking the game in. Glad to see a content creator like yourself making it clear how much of a privilege it is to have someone like Phreak on the balance team.

[@leevosh]

swain definitely needs some health scalings in his kit, would make alot of sense considering his whole identity is being an AP drain tank 1v9 demon fantasy

[@Johnywang1]

facts! champs like sion and cho (both who can play mid) have way better health scaling tbh

[@The_Royal_Lobster]

@@Johnywang1didn’t sylas just get hp scaling on his w?? Why can’t we get hp scaling on r or passive dmg if they decide to bring it back. I wish they would just give us mana on souls again.

[@gustavofringe3499]

That is a balance problem

[@lucaslepesteur7846]

I don't know why he stacks hp if nothing scales with hp. Why not tie his slow to hp and/or heal based on missing/max hp. Or maybe do something like Syndra where you gain rewards for stacking, more healing, more slow, more damage, damage reduction or defenses, something. I miss building riftmaker on him and being a drain tank.

[@nym5qu17]

i would like to see him able to solo lane

[@clover4523]

honestly i'm quite satisfied with a lot of what phreak is saying about swain and the direction they want to take him. i'm glad they're taking a more gung-ho approach and fixing his direct issues instead of gambling with new abilities and potentially risking the same situation of swain being stuck in a mire of 'well you are so clear-cut in strengths and weaknesses, you won't find value in certain games of league'. its important to remember that swain is built entirely around his E; if his E is fixed and made way more consistent, his entire kit benefits: he gets more passive stacks, more Q bolt procs, more uptime on his ultimate: everything is dependent on his nevermove and the need for a more elaborate kit rework might be entirely unnecessary if we just fix the damn E. love you husum MYGOAT here's to rank 1 by December

[@markopusic8258]

One way they could do Demonflare is to instant cast it when you press R and then allow for recasts every X seconds with %reduced damage that would scale back up with ult rank, this would allow Swain to be more sticky without the need for Rylai's while amping his late game threat where his R damage currently falls off a cliff. Also really hyped to see what they end up doing with E, it looks promising.

[@sagivaleon7355]

Good idea tbh, and good point about that helping remove the need for Rylais

[@gihdih3602]

I hope they make his e more consistent and either revert the ult so it isnt infinite or give it some mechanic that make it stronger if you are skilled, maybe something like a stack based system that makes the ult stronger if you hit your abilities or some way to recharge the R2.

[@yangus4454]

Those changes sounds quite good. Just hopped for some more utility for the passive stacks that may feel sometimes a bit underwhelming but overall they seem to fix a lot of things. Can't wait to see the definitive decision

[@dymitriroots4268]

I'm using the translator I've been playing LoL for a short time so I haven't heard of the old Swain, but I'm in love with the theme and abilities so I hope they don't take away the identity of the abilities, but also strengthening him would make him a very chosen champion which I think makes him lose a bit of his essence, since it's rare to find Swain monos

[@shizudeltafan]

Just hope they don't "kill" W it's my fav skill on Swain.

[@xristoskoumpourlis1614]

how can they kill a skill that can only hit if you are afk or ccd?

[@rukeyazu8669]

@@xristoskoumpourlis1614the W is not nearly as much about damage as it is about map awareness and cutting off escapes. If they are running through the jungle being chased by allies you can W in front of them to either slow them, or force them to redirect their path, which again slows them so your team can catch. Or stopping their back, either by hitting them or just making them move, delaying how long it takes for them to get back to lane. I could go on but it has a ton of utility uses. It’s the coolest skill he has and one of my favorite skills in the entire game.

[@shizudeltafan]

@@rukeyazu8669 🤝 and if you kill with it, you get an dopamine rush

[@alexanderarts1494]

​@@rukeyazu8669 well said I fully agree

[@Medik_0001]

W also fits really well into his champion theme of being a general. It allows him to control enemy player movements, timings, secures vision etc. More of a macro skill which I think is really cool.

[@classiceuphoria]

What swain needs to make his ult the most badass in the game is that his theme music plays onto the map when he is in ult, requires 0 power budget and would be so cool

[@odirodi]

Great video man, good commentary even from someone who doesn't play Swain, enjoyed listening to the entire video

[@user-nw3hd5wi9s]

I think his E could be something like auroras Q, (still same as it is, maybe change some numbers) but you use E, u mark all enemies it hits, and you can recast your E to get passive stack if it hits champions. overall im very happy with the changesm multiple demonflairs sounds amazing, and faster E as well, we will see soon

[@silverbolt6699]

Getting a % CDR on his W, relative to the distanced used, if landed would do wonders. He stinks into ranged but this means a Swain who has vison before team fights can poke enemies with some consistency. It helps smooth his curve from occasional long CD poke to all in drain tank much better.

[@dhobbs1803]

I honestly just wish they would bring back old Swain. I LOVED old Swain. Please, bring him back 😢😢😢

[@Orendiz]

Honestly what i was looking for a swain rework is more hp scaling similar to what they did with aatrox lately. Swain was always the AP hp drain tank, not a 1 shot full ap battle mage. Also i think if they add the ability to do multiple demon flares, they can tie it to the second bar that used to charge up the demon flare when you entered R. Revert it to when it was like that, exept now after you do a demon flare, it goes down by like 60% and you have to charge it back again to get another demon flare. Or something like that.

[@henryharjes5799]

Old (first iteration) swain main here. While I doubt they will ever undo the major rework and go back to his old man with a bird callled Beatrice roots, here’s some ideas for how to fix him if they don’t want to go that hard. The ult heal feels really weak for what it should be for, dot and tanking though heal. Even with conqueror it feels worthless. Old swain ult in the middle of the enemy team during hour glass use to be a near full heal if done right. Now you’re lucky if it’s 25% when you build completely for it. This is a huge problem, and why I think he feels weak. Rework how his ult is used to let him be a tanking mage. While I’d love if they go back to the 3 second cd toggle ult to let him sustain in lane and mid game, I doubt this will be considered. I think a favorable buff is to increase the number of birds he can drain with from just 3, and tweak some numbers there for dmg. Buff the ult heal off minions would help a lot for laning mid game issues. Isn’t it something like a 90% heal reduction off minions? With more birds in a team fight he can heal off more champions. The point is not for tons of upfront damage but rather for him to outlive the opponents if not focused, draining enemies for himself while doing it. There’s mention of increasing the number of demon flares, instead remove the out of place aoe burst damage from the ult completely. Instead of demon flare burst damage, increase the dot damage from the bird drain. He’s not a burst mage, he’s a dot damage over time mage…. Don’t make him something he’s not. Instead perhaps keep demon flare casts a slow you can recast every couple seconds. This might sound busted, but an idea is if you recast the ult, you get a small heal boost. Perhaps where every time you hit r it heals you for either % HP based on champs hit like Darius q. Or maybe heals based off the ravenous flock stacks of your passive. Another ult idea is if you hit someone with demon flare slow you proc your passive for every nearby enemy. This would give the heal, and help build stacks. Right now it feels hard to get stacks to scale up your health like other tanks. Maybe that’s a way to fix that? Overall, ult just feels wrong. He should be a dot mage, and it feels like he’s too reliant on that minuscule burst. Remove burst, increase dot and heal to sustain your ability to maintain the dot… Completely secondary of this is the old damage increase boost his old e use to have. Again I doubt they undo the rework and bring back his old kit. But perhaps you add this feature back into first champion hit by e? Adding to champions hit by w feels like it would be too strong. But if you removed demon flare’s burst damage, maybe that could work and help scale his ult damage late game with maxing w? I don’t agree with everything in this video, but I think it has a lot of good points. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d33XnZ5ogs2gi7Msi=P3il2D5nq2cHbnzj Fantasy level hopes would be that they undo the major re-work. His abilities, lore and Beatrice are missed. He use to be a damage over time anti tank mage, that tanked himself. The only champ with a 3 second ult cooldown that required proper mana management. True aoe dot player with good zoning. Aoe snare. And for players with slow hands, wasn’t so reliant on a very hard to hit skill shot for his control features. He use to be a champ you had to think about how to play and manage timing, the strategy side. Otherwise swains artwork... They took an old man with a limp who was a badass with a bird, and made him into middle aged man that feels empty… Example pirate swain skin use to be a crusty 80 year old sea dog, with a bad ass eye patch and a peg-leg. Now he’s the complete opposite of that. Let’s bring him and Beatrice back finally, with their own power in the top and midland. Making people fear his zoning, dot, and team fight potential.

[@7GamesUnlimited7]

Old swain was my dream champion. Everything worked so well together and after the mage rework with turret beatrice he was perfect. Now I still play him on and off but he is nothing like his old self. I hate what they did to him and a revert would be a dream. Doubt it would happen though. Regardless tlet's hop this reowork makes him fun

[@gihdih3602]

I feel like they made him way less fun when they made the ult infinite, since before you had the timing aspect of his ult and it was in return much more powerful in that short time it was active.

[@KingBLUCK]

I agree. I stopped playing once they changed this

[@bbombastiq]

Same here. I miss the old demon flare where you would succ a lot with R and if you filled the bar your demon flare would NUKE. I thought it was really fun and satisfying, but also gave Swain more depth and decision making, since using this powerful nuke would also end your demon form, making you VERY vulnerable if you fucked up or you didn't end the fight fast enough with your demon flare. I understand the "battle mage raidboss fantasy" and that's why people like the infinite R, but I feel like back then I was "battle mage raidboss" enough even with the 10 second R. I would LOVE the possibility of R going back to being 10 seconds (could be longer, could be infinite), but MORE IMPORTANTLY me having the decision to end my ultimate form, putting myself at risk, at the chance of making a big play with a flash demon flare or something. The new demonflare is personally what made Swain way more dull and boring in my opinion.

[@khlll_epik7937]

more swain players... more husum viewers... even more swain players... husum taking over the world!!!

[@tofaxi1531]

W will probably become like Hwei’s with the range and be a bit faster imo, as for Q they should probably reduce the angle so you can hit two or more bolts even at long range but that might be hard to balance

[@tyscho6880]

as an otp >>top

[@tamunaabazadze9087]

I'm expecting it to drop in November/early December, but atp, as long as he becomes better to play, I can wait

[@zedre7633]

What if they made his Q give mana back whenever it kills a an minion for mana efficiency? W could have shorter range but it deals way more damage. And then for R they could like give him some kind of soul shard he pulls from people when landing E or W that make the demonflare actually deal more damage and... wait, hold on... 👽

[@Rebonair]

The r change sounds awesome to have the ult feel more bursty and have a better all in outside of landing e sounds good to me

[@BlessedD97]

I think they should give more demon flares based on how many stacks swain gets

[@thelastsnaol8483]

Husum upload 🤑🤑

[@naser3000x]

I really hope they make demon flare like slow or knock back or pull or like scale more damage the more you hold it and the longer your ult goes

[@jackdalton9133]

I just want the kit to feel smooth and most importantly fun to play. Ive been playing swain since season 9 and the one thing that would keep me playing league is swains kit becoming fluid and rewarding to play instead of either extremely weak or extremely op

[@Josepono45MM]

i cant wait to see the demon time with new rework!!!!

[@Ahmed-fm5dr]

And the hero we deserve

[@Miraihi]

With these changes we're finally taking over Ionia.

[@martinkaradjov6153]

U want to loose your another hand too?

[@Salaryman_]

Demon flare on take down would be nice. You hit R, there is an automated demon flare after 3 seconds and the. Another after each takedown. Might be too OP though

[@ringas602]

At first i was sad that swain was getting a rework but all great things must come to an end. Lets see if the new swain is more fan to play

[@qwormuli77]

Phreak gains a lot of hate, because he's the head of a dept and as such has to play the frontman and human shield for the rest of the team. You can notice how quick he's to give credit on things expected to go well with the playerbase, but is all "I did" or "we did" on the controversial matters. Most of the time when he starts defending a spicy or an outright dumb change (and those are the ones that become memes, like Karth R), it's because the imperative and/or the worker on the change is from somewhere else and he can't just throw them under the bus. What he personally has more than once done wrong is go way too adamantly at that and that aggro pick aggro of it's own from the wider population. League and it's balance has tons of outright wack elements to it, but that has always held true and would be way worse without his involvement. But if you take note of player sentiments from the last 5 seasons and what he had a hand in, you start appreciating him way more. And besides, the patch breakdowns he does are damn cool, I wish any of the games I actually play had a dev going that in depth with those.

[@Citrin1s]

What people need to understand is that Phreak is AMAZING at his job except when it comes to communicating with the community. He does a lot of good changes, and yeah sometimes he fucks up but nobody is perfect, but he is such a bad orator it is embarrassing Although it seems like he's been improving on it, slowly

[@IsohelXX]

Only thing I'm worried about is that it sounded like his priority was going to give him more power as a support, not only solo lane, so we might end up in a situation like Seraphine where she was intended for mid lane but now it's balanced around her support audience. I get that nowadays Swain has even more pick rate on supp but he was always intended to be a solo laner so I hope we don't lose that. Also, crossing my fingers so infinite ult stays, even if it's at the expense of less damage on the dot

[@trueandfact]

what part of master tacticians yells solo lane to you? if anything Swain should be Support first and foremost.

[@IsohelXX]

@@trueandfact yeah man, the blood harbor ripper for sure yells support, right? What kind of dumb logic is that? Champions are more than their titles, Swain was a solo laner before his rework and it was intended to continue being one after the rework, only reason he went support for a while it's because how bad he was, not because he worked better there

[@trueandfact]

@@IsohelXX Regardless, you are wrong. Swain is first and foremost a support. He has TRIPLE pick rate in Support than in mid or top, and DOUBLE pick rate than in APC. He is and for the foreseeable future a Support mainly.

[@Citrin1s]

​@@trueandfactHis support pick rate is not that much higher because he's a good support, it's because it's where he's the less shit, big difference. There is a gap between the intention of a character's ability design and how they end up being played. Swain is intended as a solo laner that can play support rather than the other way around, but because the character isn't good currently people play it support since his utility still exists despite his flaws.

[@trueandfact]

@@Citrin1s You are not wrong, but if you think that the "rework" will suddenly make Swain viable, boy oh boy I hate to tell you this, never going to happen. His kit is complete ass for today's LoL solo lane meta. No mobility? No innate tankyness? No extreme overhealing? Dead in the water. Swain moves like molasses, has next to no range for a mage, his healing is absurdly low when compared to actual healing champions like Atrox, vampire feet loli and Warwick. Hell his burst isn't even that great, loses a lot of damage scaling in the lategame. This rework will do NOTHING to fix this issues. Maaaybe there is a bit of hope for AP ratios? but don't hold your breath. On the other hand his kit is amazing for Support. Excelent scouting with W, excellent kill potential with E, Excellent clearing waves in case of emergency with Q, excellent 2v2 with ult up. Just fantastic, S+ really. His only weakness is again... getting outranged.

[@papasmorc7130]

Love everything he talked about, but suprised theres no news about the passive. hopefully that gets touched too.

[@JustAViewer44]

Honestly, so far all changes seem to be for the better. Can't wait to eventually get his rework on Wild Rift in 2027! 🥰

[@TheSamBeaver]

Thoughts about recharging R2 by getting a passive stack during ult? think would make his gameple rly fun and reward landing his spells

[@LukeChudoba]

I agree Phreak doesn't get enough love.

[@francisfalgui9292]

The changes look promising. I hope the passive gets tweaked as well, something that incentivizes me for stacking it and won’t be useless once someone builds BorK or Liandry’s. Also for a battlemage I hope his kit gets tweaked so that he’ll have something for champs like Irelia who will dash on his face to get his other arm.

[@h.s.1288]

So, what if instead of giving multiple demon flares they make It so that while on his ult he would collect soul fragments every couple seconds making him more "unkillable" while dealing some extra magic dmg based on the amount healed from It (since the amount healed is based on his hp It would give him some hp based dmg to his kit).

[@Ben_Poi]

Would swain benefit from having either %maxHP dmg or %currentHP dmg on the drain dmg in R? that would make flare on R cast feel good and keep him as a threat throughout the duration, it doesnt need to be something too high, just rank 1-3 be like 1%,3%,5%.

[@hansbystrom9983]

I love the ideas regarding change to R, Q and E. But *please* don't change the W. I think it's a great ability; it can be used for vision and more importantly - it can catch runners, helping team secure a kill and giving you assist. In lane it can be used as control (in low elo, people always try to dodge W so you can hit E on the side and they run into it. In higher elo they just eat the W walk away). I think they should lower the damage on W but also lower the cooldown. That way we keep the utility but don't get too stronk.

[@sarius2723]

that. exactly my thought. Swain W has such a high skillcap with the viability of this spell

[@7GamesUnlimited7]

I disagree W should be completely changed. It straight up ruins the cohesion of the whole kit.

[@sakkidis]

E+W combo is really satisfying. Maybe after you root and enemy with E the next W cast , will critical strike. This way , no AP ratio has to be adjusted + you reward the E walkers 🚶‍♂. He didn't said anything about his passive being unreliable. Especially the shard collecting portion. Finally, Swain's Rylaiance (badum ts🥁) on the item is underwhelming. Maybe between the Demon Flairs, swain has a ramping AOE slow. When he cast's the flair, the slow resets to 0 and begins to ramp up until the next flair is ready.

[@oomree]

hello mr husum, ive managed to hit masters while maining swain thanks to you, but now i feel like ive "beat league of legends", how do you find the motivation to climb further ?

[@basaltniklas911]

16:10 i think it would be nice if you could recast like rn but then for example idk if you collect a certain number of stacks during R you can recast again, you know what i mean?

[@Gokuma317]

Just allow flare when you press ult instead of waiting. You can both hold it for later and use it when you need it at start. Playing vs a long range person who just walks backwards with their superior ms once you ult makes it so frustrating.

[@rubinrobo2265]

he is really good in low elo where people dont cancel his and dont dodge E.

[@sparklinglatte1]

pls don't change w i love it

[@tienatle9390]

I think everything is cool, but the R2 insta cast isn't very cool imo. There are some situations where I want to Demonflare later than right away to get a better angle or frame of attack. Not cool to rob the choices away of when to R2 from players. A better way would be to remove the 2s delay of activating R2. So we get to choose when to ult, more freely, and that would also fit in Phreak's vision and in broader contexts. Pls hear me on this, Rioters❤

[@thanhton6635]

The hero we need but don't deserve

[@Maxence.merland128]

i would love to see him in pro games after the rework

[@MrWhatsInTheCooler]

I’m sooooo sad people don’t think W fits kit, but W is most thematic. He’s a tactician not a brawler!!!! He outsmarted not beat up the secrets demon.

[@bbombastiq]

I miss the old demon flare where you would succ a lot with R and if you filled the bar your demon flare would NUKE. I thought it was really fun and satisfying, but also gave Swain more depth and decision making, since using this powerful nuke would also end your demon form, making you VERY vulnerable if you fucked up or you didn't end the fight fast enough with your demon flare. I understand the "battle mage raidboss fantasy" and that's why people like the infinite R, but I feel like back then I was "battle mage raidboss" enough even with the 10 second R. I would LOVE the possibility of R going back to being 10 seconds (could be longer, could be infinite), but MORE IMPORTANTLY me having the decision to end my ultimate form, putting myself at risk, at the chance of making a big play with a flash demon flare or something. The new demonflare is personally what made Swain way more dull and boring in my opinion.

[@mercerwing1458]

I disagree with Phreak deserving no hate, that's bs. Let's not just conveniently forget how he behaved towards the playerbase during the whole Vel'koz bug fiasco and horrendous job of balancing he has done or hasn't done at all, such as Maokai being overpowered for a MONTH AND A HALF while Phreak played him over and over with nothing happening to the champion. I agree that the hate has been blown out of proportion but to say that he's doing an amazing job and deserves praise is completely ridiculous.

[@Shadowphantom095]

What's your account

[@mercerwing1458]

@@Shadowphantom095 What's your argument?

[@HookahOtaku]

INCREASE SWAIN BASE ARMOR + SCALING + REDUCE DELAY ON W.

[@jordanoharegibson1610]

3:09 since he says every "spell" and not every "ability", does that mean passive is staying the same...

[@trueandfact]

Very lackluster. No reactive E (meaning we can recall it earlier) means the rework is dead on the water.

[@trueandfact]

Its not cosmic rays that is causing enemies to dodge the root. Its the fact that is the most telegraphed skill in the game.

[@7GamesUnlimited7]

It probably is. If we get another failed rework im fully done with this champ. A reactive and faster E would be a very simple and good change

[@asr8gg]

Calvin Klein model mr husum

[@Colemakman]

The part about otp's inflating his winrate is straight out wrong, riot confirmed this while ago, only champ whos otp's impact winrate a fair amount is katarina

[@7GamesUnlimited7]

I doubt that riot is right about this. Swain has a low playrate and high winrate that straight up means only mains play him for the most part

[@Romenel]

Rae said on the discord server that ultimate had bonus health scaling on healing wonder if that is still the case

[@cuegert9895]

No, it scales off of ap right now, iirc

[@Romenel]

@@cuegert9895 So swain stacks are still shit?

[@SapitoSucio]

I only ask to the W to be able to pick up souls, maybe also reset on champ kill

[@heyitzp]

The changes are looking quite nice, but him not mentioning anything about his passive or potential hp scalings in his kit kinda make me worried about his identity as a drain tank. I prefer making his healing scale with his passive than just having more damage on his abilities.

[@kirisgd5255]

No news about the passive? Is it gonna stay the same?

[@Mr_GameAndWatch]

Reverse swain add laser Crow for the win🐦‍⬛ Beatrice Gang 🐦‍⬛

[@hugodelafuente3926]

A fun idea with the multiple demonflares is one at the start and then a meter that fills up faster the more enemy champs you're draining that casts a demonflare when it fills up completely

[@Tentonmullet]

He should get another demonflare for every 1k he heals from his ult

[@shutupMaji]

Would you guys rather scrap W or E from Swains kit if one had to go

[@kyokusanagi5477]

I hope they remove E back, I really want it to root every champ in its way, there is no utility of E return except giving the ennemies a high chance to dodge, meanwhile Morgana cc Neeko cc, Nautilus etc... are unescapable

[@mmgt420]

E's utility is that it can root enemies through minions

[@kyokusanagi5477]

@@mmgt420 I talk about its returning It may be simply root when touch, why I wait for the back You know the hand goes and back, then pull.

[@nicholash.6096]

I told you the E changes depending on the latency etc... lol

[@jomes4137]

I just want ult toggle back man

[@ArguablyTheWorst]

I am scared this will be gragas all over again, grag was never supposed to be a "battle mage" sniping people with his barrels. They tried to force him into a bruiser playstyle and thats how we got impregnator gragas W is fun to use, who cares if swains supposed to be a battle mage

[@SSirloiNN]

What I don't understand is that they do not want to make Swain OP but look at the past 15 champions that were released, majority are overpowered and overkitted. If they cared so much about balancing ADC meta would not exist, no meta should theoretically exist as every champion should have equal value.

[@markmartin2819]

they'll make it so you can only play him in support role and only full AP because that's what Riot has arbitrarily decided Swain needs to be

[@koenji8072]

We need the prestige skin delivery time🤑

[@averymiller2255]

dissapointing imo, I dont want radical changes to his kit but these are some points that makes this "update" seem really lame: -no Passive change. Swain's passive is incredibly unsatisfying, blablabla we all know this. There are so many ways to make this feel better, for example having the entire hp scaling of his passive simply removed and increase the healing it provides, making him an actual drain tank in laning phase. -E consistency change. So it remains completely the same but with a minor bug fix adjustment, im sorry but this will NOT fix the issue with E. It will make it more fluid but we all play him and know, it is by default a hard to land ability. E needs a speed increase, it's that simple. It already is perfectly fine vs melee matchups, but the issue with E is using it to actually catch ranged opponents. Nothing changes with this fix except being slightly easier to hit melee champs by the return E change. I could rant a bit but TL;DR I just think this will do very little for Swain and im dissapointed

[@veshonfrederick]

Let phreak fix swain just don't touch aphelios

[@tyscho6880]

I knew it... So many times I hit an ennemy at max range with e, he got Slowed by rylai, but don't get hooked after 'cause... cosmic rays, you know...

[@valshinshironeshi1726]

Bring back drain tank with DoT abilities Swain :(

[@아이린-q2j]

No passive change 😢

[@waleed631]

just let me enjoy pressing E.. lol

[@josenava4758]

Cosmic rays diff

[@lycaon4352]

Sick of Swain support tbh. I want him balanced around mid and top but he’ll never be until Swain support gets nuked.

[@mpbiggame1010]

Wdym swain passive is unsatisfying? Getting 100 stacks in a game is hella satisfying bro

[@HusumLOL]

In high elo where you cannot land E against enemy challenger syndra mid so you get 5 stacks after 10 minutes. That is not so satisfying

[@mpbiggame1010]

@@HusumLOL its again an E problem but fair enough. This is why i play him top in Lo MaStA, 50+ stacks every game

[@asiergarcia3874]

Hope Q changes are something like panth Q. If you charge it reduces spread but has longer range and if you just press it has shorter range but a huge bullet spread. Great video Husum as always🙌💜

[@Andmau2552]

Pleaseeee dont touch W, its great, it makes me feel like the tactician he supposedly is

[@DeathRebel369]

I still think they should change E. Its very bad

[@maxberry158]

God almighty just get rid of the stupid stacking mechanic that offers borderline nothing and make it restore health and mana like it used to.

[@balintmolnar5153]

All the problem with swian is fuked up desing, w is uslees not good to use, is literaly not worht to evne put anythign mno that q dmg is low, and base dmg is jsut feel bad in anyway e is yeah 0 cc w is need to become a usefull hard cc spell nto jsut hy slow if oyu be kind to stay in there like 5 year to wiat it, or true sight? not working bugged or jsut new champ with hiding not work on it so total usless pell, ap ratio? where in the titanic? Or ressits? or passive soemthign, thery need almsot total rework the champt o be usefull and valid not jsut soemthign oh hey we was lazy to work with it.

[@jalkiruokayes2517]

1 view in 19 seconds, husum fell off

[@Deanbeyers1984]

These have to be bots leaving these comments at this point. It just can’t be real

[@nlgarmdevil4411]

if Phreak is involved it will be a complete disaster and the champion will either be OP a fuck on first release then nerfed into the ground every patch after for 5 patches (Skarner, who wasnt even particularly OP in the jungle but they still destryed him), completely gutted and unrecognisable as the champ they were or get some half assed changes that fix nothing. Phreak is and has been terrible at his job almost since forever,

[@HusumLOL]

Is it hard to read pinned comment?

[@nlgarmdevil4411]

@@HusumLOL yeah, i disagreed with it. I dont HATE Phreak, i just think hes bad at his job. We can disagree or even argue and still be civil. (although i will admit my bias since hes basically made Skarner objectively worse)

[@aziouss2863]

@@nlgarmdevil4411 "yeah, i disagreed with it. I dont HATE Phreak, i just think hes bad at his job. We can disagree or even argue and still be civil. (although i will admit my bias since hes basically made Skarner objectively worse)" read that again. And understand why if you were an animal you would have failed the self awareness mirror test XD WOW just wow...

[@nlgarmdevil4411]

@@aziouss2863 get a life