2011-03-09, 12:14 AM
dante9898 Wrote:Swain sucks... Or i sucked when i played Swain, Or my team just plain sucked. Either way the game when i played with Swain sucked globally.
Swain can be pretty beastly early to mid game, after that he starts dropping off. If you're team fighting with him around minions though, he's a lot better since his ult will keep him far past when other mages would have died.
Just played three games. First was as Nunu. Early to mid game, I was rocking the other team with a super early Rabadon's which made my iceball powerful and my ult so freaking powerful that I would easily oneshot the squishier people. Did pretty decent, died a few more times than I liked, but I'm still getting the hang of him. His bloodboil is hilarious on ashe. Got her up to 2 attacks per second. XP Took a while due to minion waves, but we won it pretty easily.
Second game, we're missing a DPS. I'm trying to learn Tristana since I usually go Sivir/Ashe, depending on team comp. So I lane with Swain against Sion and Tyrndamere. It was pretty much a stalemate with both sides getting a gank or two, but they were pushing us pretty hard. Top lane though, well it went badly. Our Shaco kept trying to gank mid to the point that he was feeding their ashe. The game was over at about 15 minutes due to that. Not saying that I played excellently since I went 0/6/3, but holding a lane solo against Sion and Tyrn is just not possible, and Swain, when he was around, just wasn't that helpful with dealing with them. Wish I had gotten those kills instead, but such is life. Also, wonderful non english speakers made it even more wtp worthy.
Third game I'm doing as Malphite. At first we had 3 AP so it was extremely necessary, but then one of the AP people switched to Corki. Which would have been fine, albeit I kinda wish it had been Swain who had switched since Kassadin would have been more helpful. Of course, the Corki DCs/leaves at lvl 4. We didn't surrender though. Morgana was doing excellent top lane with MF. The ezreal in mid was pretty well wrecking Swain, but the mid tower stayed up for quite a while. And I was having fun with Garen and Nidalee at bot tower. Eventually Morgana came bot and we ganked Garen. Then we took out bottom tower. Then we gathered up mid. I started to think we had a chance. They took out bottom tower, we took out mid. Then we spent quite a while back and forthing in mid. Eventually having them at their base tower. We took out their top tower, and their bot was getting weak. So we were getting ahead in tower and stayed close in kills. However we eventually died after a team fight, and they pushed back mid, took out our towers, and our inhib. Now that was fine, we were still in it, since team fights were close wins for them at best and complete losses when they didn't engage well. So we killed one or two, and pushed the minion waves back to their base. I said back . . . my team engaged. So I had to use my ult right then to buy time. My team thought that was team fight time. I died after being focused down and told them to back . . . they fought it out and died. Then went top to finish off that section. And that's when my team made another mistake. They went in without me, after pushing them off our inhib, while I killed the minions that were attacking our inhib. Now maybe I should have let them destroy it, but I honestly think we'd have been better off pushing them out of base, clearing the minions and then engaging. It was rather frustrating for me because we were doing so well 4 v 5, and it ends badly all because my team rushed into a bad spot twice.