Abilities
Swain collects Soul Fragments from ravens to heal and permanently increase his max health.
Swain fires piercing bolts that deal increased damage per bolt hitting the same target.
Swain opens a demon eye that damages, slows, and reveals enemy champions, granting a Soul Fragment per hit.
Swain launches a wave that returns, rooting enemies hit, then pulls them closer.
Swain transforms, draining health from nearby enemies, and can cast Demonflare to damage and slow.
Guide
Play as a durable battle mage who thrives in extended fights, using your ultimate to sustain and your crowd control to disrupt the enemy team.
Tips
Maximize your ultimate's healing by fighting in the middle of the enemy team.
Use your passive to stack health from enemy souls for extra tankiness.
Build mana items like Rod of Ages to sustain your poke and waveclear.
Save your E for vision control or to catch fleeing enemies in the narrow ARAM map.
Position carefully to avoid being kited; use your W to slow enemies from range.
Combos
E to snare, then W for slow and damage, followed by Q for burst.
Ultimate (R) to drain health, then use W and Q to keep enemies in range.
Flash into the enemy team, activate R, then use E to lock down a priority target.