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Riot Truexy tweeted:

Some Swain changes that will be on PBE this week! Goals here are shifting power out of less satisfying places and into the spells that make Swain, well Swain. More spammable Q in lane, and higher uptime on Ult

This should help both Swain in Mid and support by giving him better access to his meaningful spells. We expect it to be a small/mid sized buff to Swain everywhere. Birds.

Changes include:

  • Passive damage removed

  • Q CD reduced from 9 to 3 seconds to 7 to 3

  • Q mana cost reduced from 65 to 85 to 50 to 70

  • Ult CD reduced from 120 seconds at all ranks to 120 to 80

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Originally posted by bazopboomgumbochops

Support Swain isn't actually 'so' powerful, though. He's weak everywhere, right now.

Bot Swain is quite strong, just no one plays him.

Mid Swain and Support Swain are OK. In general, he performs worse as MMR rises, though.