Swain has been revealed as our newest Champion for the Noxus region along with some other cool cards! We only have three more regions left to go: Piltover & Zaun, Ionia, and the new region for the expansion. We're betting on Bilgewater, but it could easily be Targon based on voice recordings from both of them. Which new region are you hoping to see?
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i kinda dislike that the leviathan play is just draw swain and not a champion it really restricts its playability
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but that is common and just a 1 mana 2/1 this is a epic with unusual stats and 3 keywords
So what? epics are not that hard to come by, if you come from HS there are really niche epics that require other cards as well.. for example for playing ANY galakround deck you really want kronx and for some versions you need niche epic cards as well..
in runeterra there are also some epics that really work with one strategy.. for example the purrsuit for perfection is REALLY niche it's only might be good in a highlander deck..
all in all.. it doesn't matter how niche a card is as long as it got a deck to belong to.. and I think swain has many decks it can fit into.
Quite impressive level up animation, have to admit.
Actually a decent Swain port from League, they implemented his abilities nicely.
Not really..
Passive: restore HP and get hp every takedown(doesn't have health gain) or when applying his other passive that pulls a champion on his direction when hit by another CC(it's not exactly a stun when dealling dmg)
Q: it's an AOE attack with very short range if it were to be implemented it would be a cleave.
W: it's a long range slow which has a small AOE and activates the first passive (nothing alike)
E: it's a claw root that goes and returns to a certain range - doesn't fit any effect except the stun kind of .. but it's a root not a stun but looking at yasuo stun could also be a knock up...
R: no hp drain AGAIN, only his nexus strike makes sense for his 2nd ult proc that blows up (but it should depend on damage done during the ult..)
So I don't think it's a smooth transition.. the card fits swain as a character but NOT as his kit in league.
Maybe there’ll be a Seige Engines plus Funsmith deck?
It seems like this package would go really well with Sejuani. I’m excited about Imperial Demolitionist with Vlad too.
Lol those were the first 2 champions I thought of when I saw that card Demolitionist to.