Swain Patch History

Slow: 50 – 70% 50% at all ranks

Damage AP ratio per tick: 2.5% AP 2% AP

AP ratio: 50% AP 40% AP

Slow: 75% 50%

Heal: 3 to 6 6% maximum health at all levels

Base damage: 80 – 240 90 – 250

Mana cost: 60 – 80 50 – 70

Bugfix If the missile hits a target during Fate Sealed's cast time, Nevermove's displacement is no longer illegally able to return Fate Sealed's caster to their initial cast position after the cast time has completed.

Bonus health per Soul Fragment: 12 15

AP ratio: 60% AP 70% AP

Base armor: 26 25

Armor growth: 5.2 4.7

Base magic resistance: 30 31

Magic resistance growth: 1.3 1.55

Base damage: 60 – 160 60 – 180

Bonus base damage per bolt: 60/4 – 160/4 60/4 – 180/4

Maximum base damage: 60*2 – 160*2 60*2 – 180*2

Cooldown: 14 – 10 12 – 10

Heal health ratio per second: 1.25% bonus health 1.5% bonus health

Non-champion heal health ratio per second: 0.125% bonus health 0.15% bonus health

Base health regeneration: 7 3

Health regeneration growth: 0.65 0.5

Base mana: 468 400

Base mana regeneration: 8 10

Healing: 3;4;5;6. Now scales linearly instead of at breakpoints 3 to 6 of his maximum health

Mana cost: 45 – 65 40 – 60

Base damage: 65 – 145 60 – 160

Bonus base damage per bolt: 15 – 55. Now always 25% damage 60/4 – 160/4

Maximum base damage: 125 – 365. Now always 200% damage 60*2 – 160*2

AP ratio: 40% AP 45% AP

Bonus AP ratio per bolt: 10% AP 11.25% AP

Maximum AP ratio: 80% AP 90% AP

Base damage: 80 – 220 70 – 210

Minion base damage: 80/2 – 220/2 70/2 – 210/2

AP ratio: 55% AP 60% AP

Minion AP ratio: 27.5% AP 30% AP

Slow strength: 25 – 65% 50 – 70%

Slow duration: 2.5 1.5 seconds

Reveal duration: 4 – 8 6 seconds at all ranks

Cooldown: 10 at all ranks 14 – 10

Mana cost: 50 at all ranks 60 – 80

Removed Outgoing missile no longer deals 35 – 175 (+ 25% AP) magic damage.

Detonation base damage: 35 – 75 80 – 240

Detonation AP ratio: 25% AP 60% AP

Incoming missile width: 170 180

Outgoing missile speed: 0.562 1125 to 1800 from 935;1235;1735;2735. Time to reach maximum range increased to 0.585 seconds

Incoming missile speed: 0.6 2000 to 2800 from 600;1400;2200. Time to reach maximum range reduced to 0.4 seconds

Bugfix No longer displays root VFX on a rooted target if the target dies to its damage.

Cooldown: 100 – 60 3 120 seconds at all ranks

New Cooldown now starts on-cast instead of post-effect.

Removed No longer reduces Nevermove's cooldown by 20% while in Demonic Ascension.

Base damage per second: 20 – 60 3 15 – 35 3

Damage per second AP ratio: 10% AP 5% AP

Undocumented - Estimated: Now deals persistent area damage instead of area damage.

Base heal per second: 15 – 40 3 15 – 45 3

Non-champion base heal per second: 15/10 – 40/10 3 15/10 – 45/10 3

Heal AP ratio per second: 18% AP 5% AP

Non-champion heal AP ratio per second: 1.8% AP 0.5% AP

New Heal now scales with 1.25% bonus health, reduced to 0.125% bonus health against non-champions.

New Can now be recast up to 100 times.

New Now has a cooldown of 8 seconds between recasts, unaffected by ability haste.

Initial recast timer unchanged.

Base damage: 150 – 300 3 150 – 350 3

AP ratio: 60% AP 50% AP

Slow strength: 60% 75%

Bugfix Healing is now properly reduced against Voidmite.

Now displays the bonus health gained from Soul Fragments in the tooltip and passive icon.

Base damage: 60 – 140 65 – 145

Bonus base damage per bolt: 12 – 52 15 – 55

Maximum base damage: 108 – 348 125 – 365

AP ratio: 38% AP 40% AP

Bonus AP ratio per bolt: 8% AP 10% AP

Maximum AP ratio: 70% AP 80% AP

Mana growth: 28.5 29

Bugfix Fixed a bug where the recast could pull targets that were in stasis.

Bugfix Knocked up/stunned animation is now correctly played.

Heal health: 3.5;4.5;5.5;7 3 to 6 for 4 of his maximum health

Base damage: 80 – 240 80 – 220

AP ratio: 70% AP 55% AP

Base heal per second: 15 – 45 3 15 – 40 3

Heal AP ratio: 20% AP 18% AP

Bugfix Fixed a bug preventing him from properly ranking the spell.

Base health: 525 595

Health growth: 85 99

Armor growth: 4 5.2

Magic resistance growth: 0.5 1.3

Heal health ratio: 4;5.5;7;9 3.5;4.5;5.5;7 of his maximum health

New Champion takedowns now fully restore Demonic Energy.

New Now automatically casts Demonflare when Demonic Ascension expires. This will not occur if Demonic Ascension ends due to Swain's death.

Base heal per second: 15 – 65 3 15 – 45 3

Heal AP ratio per second: 25% AP 20% AP

Bugfix Ability descriptions in the "Champion Details" page of the client have now been updated.

Bugfix Tooltip now properly mentions that struck champions are revealed.

New Recast can now cast during other cast times instead of having to wait them out via buffering.

No longer breaks channels if it can be cast during them, with the standard exception of Recall.

Bugfix Can no longer be recast if all champions had removed the root.

Base armor: 23 26

Base movement speed: 325 330

Removed Innate - Ravenous: Swain can periodically target a nearby immobilized enemy champion to rip out a Soul Fragment from them, dealing 20 to 105 (+ 30% AP) magic damage and pulling them 290-units towards him over a 0.25-second cast time. If the target would be brought past Swain, they are instead knocked back the excess distance. Swain cannot use Ravenous while unable to cast abilities.

Heal: 4 to 7 for 3 4;5.5;7;9 of his maximum health

Bonus health per Soul Fragment: 5 12

Cooldown: 9 – 3 7 – 3 seconds

Mana cost: 65 – 85 45 – 65

Base damage: 55 – 135 60 – 140

AP ratio: 40% AP 38% AP

Bonus bolt damage: 15 – 35% of bolt's damage 12 – 52 (+ 8% AP)

Maximum base damage: 88 – 324 108 – 348

Maximum AP ratio: 64 – 96% AP 70% AP at all ranks

Mana cost: 70 – 110 60 – 80

New Pinging the ability now displays all visible enemies within range in chat.

New Can now be recast to pull all champions rooted by it, gaining a Soul Fragment for each target pulled.

If the targets would be brought past Swain, they are instead knocked back the excess distance.

If the root is not applied to or is removed from all targets, the recast does not become available.

New Now grants vision of all rooted targets.

New Cooldown is now reduced by 20% during Demonic Ascension.

Upon casting, Swain generates 50 Demonic Energy. Demonic Ascension lasts as long as Swain has Demonic Energy, decaying by 5 every 0.5 seconds,: New at least one enemy champion, up to 50. After 2 seconds, he can recast to use Demonflare 7.5 after 5 seconds have elapsed. Swain generates 10 Demonic Energy every 0.5 seconds while draining

Previous duration: 12 seconds.

Recast timer: 0.5 seconds 2 seconds

New Casting Demonflare no longer ends Demonic Ascension's effects early.

Removed No longer grants 125 – 275 3 bonus health.

Removed No longer doubles the health gained from Soul Fragments.

Cooldown: 120 at all ranks 100 – 60 3 seconds

Base damage per second: 35 – 65 3 20 – 60 3

Damage AP ratio per second: 14.167% AP 10% AP

Base heal per second: 20 – 50 3 15 – 65 3

Heal AP ratio per second: 16% AP 25% AP

Base damage: 100 – 200 3 150 – 300 3

AP ratio: 50% AP 60% AP

New Now slows enemies by 60%, decaying over 1.5 seconds.

New Can now be cast once during Demonic Ascension without ending the duration prematurely.

Removed Damage is no longer increased by 37.5% of the health drained during Demonic Ascension, up to a total damage of 200 – 400 3 (+ 100% AP).

Bugfix Model scale returned to proper size.

Bugfix Model scale returned to proper size.

Undocumented / Bug: Model scale reduced by 10.81%.

Undocumented / Bug: Model scale reduced by 10.81%.

Bugfix Hitting him triggers more metallic sounds.

Demonflare

Bugfix Fixed an SFX bug where if he used it and started draining a target's soul, the target would not hear the stereo whisper SFX or the soul drain start SFX.

Base armor: 22.72 23

Base movement speed: 335 325

Cooldown: 12 to 6 for 3 10 seconds at all levels

New Cooldown is now affected by cooldown reduction.

Removed No longer restores 4 to 7 for 3 maximum mana.

Bugfix Now requires the target to be immobilized by an enemy source.

Can no longer pull enemies launched by Blast Cone triggered by themselves or their teammates.

[Undocumented] Can no longer pull other enemies affected by self-CC or CC from their allies.

Cooldown: 10 – 4 9 – 3 seconds

Angle between bolts: 10 8

New Bolts can now pierce through champions.

Range: 3500 at all ranks 5500 – 7500 units

Base damage: 100 – 300 80 – 240

Mana cost: 70 – 130 70 – 110

Cooldown: 13 – 9 10 seconds at all ranks

Mana cost: 60 – 80 50 at all ranks

Bugfix Tooltip in the collection tab has been updated to accurately reflect its latest state.

Indicator added to show recast ability timer.

Recommended items updated.

Bugfix Tooltip now displays the correct amount of health drained.

Target range: 625 725

Health growth: 90 85

Base attack range: 550 525

Removed No longer stores up to 5 Soul Fragments to empower Demonflare.

New Now permanently stores Soul Fragments, increasing his maximum health by 5 for each Soul Fragment collected.

New Collecting a Soul Fragment now restores 4 to 7 of his maximum mana.

Removed No longer restores 3% maximum mana upon killing a unit.

New Bolts now always pierce through minions and stop on impact with champions.

Cooldown: 7.5 – 2.5 10 – 4 seconds

Effect radius: 725 625 units

Angle between bolts: 8 10

New Now has a mana cost of 100.

Bonus health: 150 – 400 3 125 – 275 3

New Now doubles the health gained from Soul Fragments for the duration.

Minion and monster healing reduction: 80% 90%

New Now drains all targets within the radius, including stealthed units.

Removed No longer has a healing threshold of 125;300;450 health to cast Demonflare.

New Can now cast Demonflare after draining any amount of health.

Removed No longer deals 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 21% AP) magic damage per Soul Fragment up to a maximum of 225 / 300 / 375 (+ 105% AP).

New Now deals 100 – 200 3 (+ 50% AP) magic damage plus 37.5% of the amount of health drained during Demonic Ascension, up to a cap of 200 – 400 3 (+ 100% AP).

Bugfix Skin-specific VO has been restored.

AP ratio per fragment: 27% AP 21% AP

Maximum AP ratio: 135% AP 105% AP

Bugfix No longer incorrectly deals double damage to epic monsters.

Base mana: 374 468

Mana growth: 57 28.5

Base mana regeneration: 6 8

Bugfix Now only gives one stack for Phase Rush purposes.

Icon can now be pinged to show allies the remaining cooldown on the pull.

Cooldown: 5.5 / 4.75 / 4 / 3.25 / 2.5 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5 seconds

Base damage: 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145 55 / 75 / 95 / 115 / 135

Bugfix No longer plays his base VO lines after killing an objective.

Cooldown: 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5 5.5 / 4.75 / 4 / 3.25 / 2.5 seconds

Effect radius: 265 325

Radius: 70 100

Bugfix Fixed a bug where Nevermove was starting its return a frame too slowly.

Bugfix Fixed a bug where Nevermove would sometimes not root its primary target hit by the return portion.

New Demon Flare now passes through champions. Effects like Wind Wall and Unbreakable still block the portion of the nova they intercept.

Bugfix Fixed a bug where his ultimate cooldown indicator was displaying as always available to his allies.

Mana cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 / 130 70 / 85 / 100 / 115 / 130

Heal per second: 15 / 30 / 45 20 / 35 / 50

New Cooldown and Soul fragments are fully refunded if Swain dies during the channel time of Demonic Ascension.

Bugfix The Ultimate Hat now properly reduces Demonic Ascension's cooldown.

Health restored require to cast Demonflare: 150;300;450 125;300;450

Area of effect starts slightly more in the direction of Swain's movement at high movement speeds.

Bugfix Fixed a bug where he could remain in Demonic Ascension when affected by Whimsy.

Title: the Master Tactician the Noxian Grand General

Complete visual upgrade across all skins.

New splash artwork for Original Swain, Northern Front Swain, Bilgewater Swain, and Tyrant Swain.

New voice over.

New lore.

Base attack damage: 52.04 58

Base health: 528 525

Base health regeneration: 7.842 7

Attack damage growth: 3 2.7

Health growth: 102 90

Mana growth: 47 57

Base attack range: 500 550

Ravenous: Swain can periodically target a nearby immobilized enemy champion to rip out a Soul Fragment from them, dealing 20;25;30;35;40;45;50;55;60;65;70;75;80;85;90;95;100;105 (+ 30% AP) magic damage and pulling them X-units towards him.

Flock: Enemy champion takedowns leave a Soul Fragment behind. Swain restores 4%;5.5%;7% maximum health whenever he collects a Soul Fragment, and can store up to 5 at once.

Static Cooldown: 12;9;6 seconds.

Active: Swain unleashes five bolts of eldritch power in the target direction, dealing 65 / 85 / 105 / 125 / 145 (+ 40% AP) magic damage to the first enemies they hit. Enemies can intercept multiple bolts, taking 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35% bonus damage per additional bolt.

Bolts that kill their targets continue onward and restore 3% maximum mana. This can repeat indefinitely until the bolts reach their maximum distance.

Mana Cost: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85.

Cooldown: 7.5 / 6.25 / 5 / 3.75 / 2.5 seconds.

Active: Swain summons a demonic eye at the target area that reveals it for 2 seconds before exploding, dealing 100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300 (+ 70% AP) magic damage to all enemies hit, halved against non-champions, and slowing them by 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65% for 2.5 seconds.

Enemy champions are revealed for 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 seconds and each grant Swain a Soul Fragment.

Mana Cost: 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 / 130.

Cooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18 seconds.

Active: Swain launches a demonic wave in the target direction, dealing 35 / 70 / 105 / 140 / 175 (+ 25% AP) magic damage to enemies it passes through.

Upon reaching its maximum distance, the wave returns to Swain, detonating at the first enemy hit, dealing 35 / 45 / 55 / 65 / 75 (+ 25% AP) magic damage to all nearby enemies and rooting them for 1.5 seconds.

Mana Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80.

Cooldown: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 seconds.

Active: Swain frees the demon within for 12 seconds, gaining 150 / 275 / 400 bonus health.

While Demonic Ascension is active, Swain drains the 3 enemies closest to him, prioritizing champions, dealing 35 / 50 / 65 (+ 14.167% AP) magic damage to them each second, and healing himself for 15 / 30 / 45 (+ 16% AP) health for each enemy hit, reduced by 80% against minions and monsters.

After restoring 150;300;450 health with Demonic Ascension, Swain can end its effects early to cast Demonflare, and automatically does so at the end of its duration.

Demonflare: Swain consumes all of his Soul Fragments, dealing 45 / 60 / 75 (+ 27% AP) magic damage per fragment to all nearby enemies based on their number.

Second Cast Cost: All Soul Fragments.

Cooldown: 120 seconds.

New Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

Base health: 516.04 528

Health growth: 90 102

Bugfix Fixed a bug causing the first raven to visually spawn from the blue side fountain.

Magic resistance growth: 0 0.5

Bugfix Fixed some busted textures on the claws.

Bugfix Tyrant Swain's Nevermove claws no longer wiggle when enemies try to move while rooted.

Cooldown: 10 20 seconds

Initial lockout on recast: 0.5 2 seconds

Base damage: 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 30 / 47.5 / 65 / 82.5 / 100

Base heal vs. champions: 30 / 45 / 60 20 / 30 / 40

Correction: Actual AP ratio for heal against champions is (+ 12% AP) instead of (+ 10% AP).

Health growth: 78 90

New Now executes minions below 10 health.

Clarity: Tooltip now shows total damage dealt against minions and non-minions.

Bugfix Fixed a bug where spell effects like Rylai's Crystal Scepter and Liandry's Torment weren't applying properly.

Healing vs. non-champions: 15% damage dealt 8 / 11 / 13 (+ 3% AP)

Healing vs. champions: 75% damage dealt 30 / 45 / 60 (+ 12% AP)

New Now prioritizes targets closest to Swain instead of picking them at random (still prioritizes champions over non-champions).

Damage per second: 25 / 40 / 55 / 70 / 85 30 / 50 / 70 / 90 / 110

Fixed a bug that caused Ravenous Flock to have a cast time.

Basic attack missile speed: 1500 1800

Mana restoration: 10;11;12;13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27 13;14;15;16;17;18;19;20;21;22;23;24;25;26;27;28;29;30

Revised Active: Swain commands Beatrice to the fly to the target location, where she remains for 4 seconds. Beatrice will attack enemies within the area, prioritizing the target of Torment, other champions in range and then any target in range. Beatrice's attacks deal magic damage and slows.

Mana cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

Cooldown: 8 at all ranks 14 / 13 / 12 / 11 / 10

Duration: 3 4 seconds

New Deals double damage against minions.

Mana cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100

Base damage: 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235 50 / 80 / 110 / 140 / 170

AP ratio: 80% AP 100% AP

Damage amplification: 8 / 11 / 14 / 17 / 20% 20% at all ranks

Cooldown: 8 10 seconds

Mana cost increased per second: 5 / 6 / 7 5 at all ranks

Number of ravens: 3 5

Heal from minions: 25% of damage dealt 15%

New Ravenous Flock cannot select the same target twice in a row.

New splash artwork for Original Swain.

Splash artwork for Bilgewater Swain updated to the Chinese art.

Root duration: 2 at all ranks 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 seconds

Base mana: 324 374

Mana growth: 50 47

Base armor: 12 16

Now additionally restores 9% of maximum mana on champion kill/assist.

Movement speed: 310 335

Basic attack range: 480 500

Range: 600 625

Slow: 20 / 23 / 26 / 29 / 32% 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%

Cooldown: 10 8 seconds

Fixed a bug with Swain's skins that caused the game to hitch on the first time cast.

Basic attack frame speed increased.

Upkeep cost: 5 / 7 / 9 5 / 6 / 7 mana

Ravenous Flock

Fixed a bug where Swain had reduced mana regeneration while active.

Now prioritizes champions instead of choosing targets randomly.

Now heals Swain for 75% of the damage dealt versus champions and 25% versus minions instead of 50% regardless of the target.

Now heals Swain for 50% of the actual damage dealt to enemies (instead of 50% of the raw damage the ability deals).

Heal is no longer reduced if the damage dealt is absorbed by shields.

New passive: Restores Swain a flat amount of mana equal to 9 (+1 per level) after killing an enemy unit.

Old passive: Increases Swain's base mana regeneration by 300% by 5 seconds after killing an enemy unit.

Leash range slightly increased.

Range: 600 625

Cooldown: 15 10 seconds

Updated Swain's recommended items.

Mana regeneration bonus: 250% 300%

Ability power ratio: (+75% AP) (+90% AP)

Fixed a bug where it would slow through Highlander or Ragnarok.

Fixed a bug where the damage portion sometimes would not stop after breaking the leash.

Base damage: 72 / 110 / 148 / 186 / 224 75 / 115 / 155 / 195 / 235

Ability power ratio: (+60% AP) (+80% AP)

Ability power ratio: (+50% AP) (+70% AP)

Carrion Renewal (Innate)

Swain gains increased mana regeneration for 5 seconds upon killing a unit.

Decrepify (Q)

Swain sets his raven to cripple an enemy. Over the next three seconds, the target takes damage over time and is slowed.

Nevermove (W)

Swain marks a target area. After a short delay, mighty talons grab hold of enemy units dealing damage and rooting them.

Torment (E)

Swain afflicts his target, dealing damage to them over time and causing them to take increased damage from Swain's attacks.

Ravenous Flock (Ultimate)

Toggle: Swain transforms into the form of a raven, during this time up to 3 lesser ravens strike out at nearby enemies each second. Swain is healed for half the damage dealt by the ravens.