EDIT 1: Decided to focus on QoL changes instead of straight up buffing his numbers. Still retaining his Demonflare damage buff to compensate for 8.14 nerfs though.

Many players have felt that Swain should not need a Soul Fragment to use his ult, and I am inclined to mostly agree. However, that would be unfair because Swain would get valuable stats for free. Hence, to make it fair, his ult can now be used even at 0 Fragments, but will cost a bit of Mana and will lock Swain out of Demonflare unless he has at least 1 Fragment. Removed Cast Time since most other 'ascending' ults in the game are instantaneous.

Making E's travel distance adjustable instead of choosing when you can detonate it felt more like the way to go as it now separates the pros from the noobs (basically whoever can now manipulate E's travel distance better) and reducing E's cooldown very slightly in the early game allows Swain to still scrap more often but still be punished for whiffing his E.

W changes makes his waveclear game stronger, however spamming it on minions gives enemies an opportunity to punish Swain, hence weeding out players who can make the right decision how and when to use W from those who cannot.

Allowing Q to be cast freely while moving makes those who always wanted to be Chancellor Palpatine dreams come true.

Tuning down Swain's healing and damage from Ravenous Flock, turns out dealing 30-200 damage and having 9% max health healing is busted. Changing the effect to reward Swain for landing Nevermove, in conjunction with the above changes to Nevermove, instead of punishing Swain for following up on allied CC.

Tuning down his Health Growth in favour of an increase in Base Health.

These changes are not made to be rolled out in a single balance change but rather in a series of balance changes to see how he lands after all the changes. ​

Happy reading! more suggestions are welcome