You can keep track of how much damage his ulti will deal based on how many soul shards he has which is right below his resource bar. His E will get caught on the 3 ranged minions if you position yourself in between swain and your ranged minions. After tiamat when you trade with him make sure you look to dodge his E during the trade or you will lose the trade pretty hard. Swain has really good poke, but you can get good trades on him every time he misses his E or wastes his W. However he can be hard to dive at 100% HP just because of his ulti healing and zhonya, so if he is hugging turret hard use your mobility to take jungle camps or look for an opportunity to roam in between waves.”ĮntxRecoil says “Fleet Footwork Runes and Build. In the mid-late game swain will have a hard time dealing with you 1v1 and you can abuse his cooldowns really well if he ever misses something. He can have up to 5 soul shards and if he has all 5 his ultimate will deal maximum damage. Grayified says “Fleet Footwork Runes and Build. Later on to the game, he becomes a sort of a good frontilne for his team so try to splitpush and force him to match you to negate his team utility and since he can't really match you solo since he won't be able to deal enough damage to outpoke the Legend: Bloodline and Passive Lifesteal combined so be prepared for 1v2 or even 1v3 scenarios.” Usually they will go for Grasp of the Undying as their rune page to be somewhat a Drain Tank but Nasus with Conqueror + Legend: Bloodline is way stronger than him. Once you hit lvl 6 and Sheen power spike you can look to trade on him whenever he misses his E (the pull) and you can run him down since they don't have many abilities to stop you and Nasus base movement speed is way higher than Swain without counting on Nasus W. As for laning phase, he will usually try to poke you really hard but he will run out of mana super easily, but still don't disrespect him, his damage early levels, specially against Nasus, it's really strong. Swain lately has barely been seen in the Top lane since nowadays every Bruiser build's BORK and Black Cleaver making it super hard for him to outrade Bruisers damage and sustain, he's usually played as a support that pokes and has a great teamfight. ERNESTSAURUS says “CONQUEROR / FLEET FOOTWORK SETUP - DORANS SHIELD / 3 REJUVENATION BEADS + POT =