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Swain Wild Rift champion guide

Champion guide

What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.

In-game title
The Noxian Grand General
Official role
MAGE, TANK
Lane
Mid
Difficulty
High
Source tier
S

Abilities

Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.

PASSIVE Ravenous Flock

Swain's ravens collect Soul Fragments that heal him and permanently increase his maximum health and scaling with Ability Power.

1 Death's Hand

Swain unleashes several bolts of eldritch power that pierce through enemies. Enemies hit take more damage for each bolt they are struck by.

2 Vision of Empire

Swain opens a demon eye that deals damage and slows enemies. Champions hit are revealed and also grant Swain a Soul Fragment.

3 Nevermove

Swain launches a wave of demonic power forward. It then returns to Swain and roots enemies it hits. Swain can then choose to pull all rooted champions closer.

ULTIMATE Demonic Ascension

Swain transforms into a demon and drains health from nearby enemy champions, minions, and neutral monsters. Swain can cast Demonflare to decimate multiple times and slow nearby enemies with a nova of soulfire. This form is indefinite as long as Swain drains enemy champions.

Reviewed build

The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.

Core build order

  1. Malignance
  2. Infinity Orb
  3. Rabadon's Deathcap
  4. Awakened Soulstealer
  5. Crown of the Shattered Queen
  6. Boots of ManaStasis

Runes

Situational answers

One slot, changed when the enemy team changes the problem. These are answers, not automatic purchases.

Matchups

  • 5reviewed counter links
  • 5reviewed synergy links

Harder matchups

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Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.