With Swain gets one of the classic champions of League of Legends finally its revision and hopefully will be seen more often on the battlefield again.
League of Legends - Swain
“Swain is the visionary ruler of the Noxian Empire who leads his military services from the front lines. Despite being crippled in the Ionian Wars, with ruthless determination and a new, demonic hand, he brought Noxus under his control. Now the Grand General is going to fight an impending darkness that only he can see. "
Swain's new abilities create soul fragments with which he casts an energy nova "Demon Fire" at the end of his ultimat. Their damage scales with the used soul fragments.
Here are his new skills:
PASSIVE: STARVED FOCUS
Starved: Swain can periodically right-click on any immobilized enemy champion in the vicinity to make that one Soul fragment to tear out. In doing so, he causes damage and pulls him towards him.
Crowd: Opposing champions leave a Soul fragmentwhen they die. Collect shadowy ravens Soul fragments near what heals Swain for part of his maximum life. Swain can hold multiple fragments at once.
Q: HANDLE OF DEATH
Swain shoots dark bolts of lightning, damaging the first enemy hit. Enemies can take multiple lightning bolts, but only suffer full damage from the first bolt. When a unit dies, the lightning bolts go through it and restore some of Swain's mana.
W: FORESIGHT FROM THE GENERAL
Swain opens a demon eye at the target location, which after a slight delay causes damage to all enemies in the area and slows them down.
General's Foresight deals additional damage to champions caught in the explosion and reveals them. Swain also receives a Soul fragment for every champion hit.
E: NEVER GOOD
Swain projects his demonic hand forward, dealing damage to all enemies hit. The hand then returns to Swain and explodes on the first enemy hit, damaging and holding all enemies in the explosion radius.
R: DEMONIC WING
Swain's health is greatly increased and he saps several nearby enemies (prioritized champions) over a longer period of time.
When Demonic Wings ends, Swain consumes his Soul fragments, around Demon fire to work - an energy nova that causes damage to the closest enemies in its vicinity. Demon Fire's damage increases with every soul fragment consumed.
When Swain has drained sufficient life, he can end "Demonic Wings" and use "Demon Fire" as he likes.
So Swain keeps some of his typical features just eluding life on his Ultimate. The large range of his E and the possibility of using it to reveal the map should hopefully make him interesting for LCS professionals as well. The detailed disclosure of his new skills and first tips on how to play the new Swain can be found on the official League of Legends homepage.
