Imperial Mandate Swain Build

1. This build is all about Imperial Mandate and immobilizing your enemies.
2. You support your team through disrupting fights, locking down enemies with CC, making them Vulnerable so they take more damage, and providing healing/buffs.

Stacking

1. Even when playing off-meta builds, it's extremely important to collect Soul Fragments to permanently increase your maximum Health, it is gonna benefit you in the long run.

Imperial Mandate

1. Snaring enemies with Nevermove (E) roots them and procs Imperial Mandate, making them Vulnerable so you and your team do more dmg to them.
2. Imperial Mandate also gives additional Ability Haste on Nevermove (E), lowering its cooldown so you can pull enemies more often.

Core

1. Your core item is Imperial Mandate, which grants Ability Haste to your immobilizing abilities and marks immobilized targets Vulnerable, so they receive more damage from you and your team.

Runes

1. Your CC triggers Glacial Augment and Imperial Mandate, slowing the area and making targets Vulnerable.

How Imperial Mandate works

1. Imperial Mandate grants additional Ability Haste to your immobilizing abilities. Immobilizing an enemy marks them as Vulnerable, causing them to take increased damage from all sources, from you and your team.

Buffing your team

1. Font of Life heal triggers various support items like Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water or even Moonstone Renewer!
2. If your team needs sustain, you can even get Diadem of Songs.
3. If your team has auto attackers, get Ardent Censer. Your Font of Life will buff them constantly.
4. Bandlepipes is excellent - gives MS and buffs allies' attack speed when you CC/slow enemies.
5. Staff of Flowing Water is a good item if you have lots of AP scaling champions on the team.

Adaptation

1. Enemy team heavy on AP? Buy MR items like Kaenic Rookern or Spirit Visage.
2. Enemy team heavy on AD? Buy Armor items like Thornmail or Randuin's Omen.
3. Your team lacks damage? You can buy damage items - Liandry's Torment or Blackfire Torch work well.

Ravenous Flock (Passive)

1. Remember to pay attention and collect Soul Fragments to permanently increase your maximum Health, especially after fights.

Vision of Empire (W)

1. You can use Vision of Empire (W) to stop enemies taking portal (frost-gate). Time it well, and they will need to walk, and you will get the turret!
2. Vision of Empire (W) trick works even better with all DoTs effects (Liandry's Anguish and Demonic Embrace).

Nevermove (E)

1. Did you just catch someone with your Nevermove (E)? Do not use second E right away, but use it at the very last moment for maximum CC.
2. After you catch someone with your Nevermove (E), you can set up Vision of Empire (W) for a certain hit.

Demonic Ascension (R)

1. Enemies in your base? Use Demonic Ascension (R) before taking portal (frost-gate), this way you damage everyone on your way.

1. If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
2. While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
3. Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
4. Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.