Swain Quotes

Champion Select

Pick

• "Fear the power you do not see."

Ban

• "Do not confuse cowardice for wisdom."

Movement

First Move

• "You can sit on a throne, that doesn't make you a ruler. It only means you have an arse."
• "I have seen this place... A vision... A battle."
• "The outcome was decided when they brought an army; and I brought a demon."
• "If they already call me a villain, what will they call me when I succeed?"
• "It is just as the spies described... A pity I had them executed."
• "I look out upon humanity, and see only a feast." Tyrant
• "Dispatch these worms." Tyrant
• "Men are too weak to rule (laughs) but I am no man." Tyrant
• "I fought the dragons once... Now I have become one!" Dragon Master
• "To end the world with fire. To rule with flame." Dragon Master
• "At last, I may reveal myself to the dragonslayers." Dragon Master

First Move › First Move with an Ally Bilgewater Champion

• "Dead men tell tales that only I can hear."
• "No quarter. That means 'no mercy' you cretins."
• "A black flag above Bilgewater. A raven's wing."

First Move › First Move with Enemy LeBlanc Both sides

• "An assassin is due at any moment. It is how I know LeBlanc cares."

Moving

• "Destiny marches—like any man."
• "There is always a choice. The truth is no exception."
• "A calculated risk is no risk at all."
• "Decisions have consequences. This I know well."
• "One can read the future in battle lines, assuming one can read."
• "We are at war. Do not forget it."
• "The mud on our boots will hide the bloodstains."
• "A Noxian knows who he is. And what he must do."
• "The few, for the many."
• "Is it not enough for Noxus to be strong?"
• "To redraw the map, the blood of soldiers must be the ink."
• "I cannot lead if I allow fools to stumble about before me."
• "I suppose I should be grateful they have the decency to fear me."
• "They expect me to play fairly... We aren't even playing the same game."
• "When their lives flash before their eyes, so do their secrets."
• "I could kill them all. But it would be far crueler to show them that I am right."
• "They are blind to the cold logic of this world."
• "I have killed more men with words than by my own hand. Not for lack of trying."
• "Tell me again all the crimes I've committed, and I'll tell you the price of victory."
• "A new vantage, is all the advantage I need."
• "The more they try to kill me, the more they reveal I am on the right path."
• "They are five steps from realizing: I am ten steps ahead."
• "Would they even struggle to survive, if they knew what was to come?"
• "I've heard what they call me. What a waste of their final words."
• "I was born a patrician. I became a soldier."
• "Never make a bargain with a demon... that you intend to keep."
• "It is not the visions that haunt me—but what I do not see."
• "What is one more demon, when I already have so many?"
• "I peer through the darkness others fear."
• "A riddle wrapped in a mystery, hidden within us all."
• "A voice whispers in the shadows. Though few can hear it."
• "The old wounds ache. They are reminders."
• "Hmph... I do so enjoy explaining things to idiots."
• "The shadows of our empire, are cast by a raven's wings."
• "After the battle, the ravens feast."

Moving › Moving alongside Multiple Allies - Ally Team is Ahead

• "Drive them from the battlefield!"
• "We have the momentum."
• "Who is it we're fighting? I only see their backs."
• "Any man who must say 'We are winning'… is not truly winning."
• "Leave the survivors to their officers."
• "They flee Noxus on the roads we built!"
• "One more push, and they will break."
• "Master fear, to master the dragon." Dragon Master
• "Dragons cannot inherit the earth... If it is already theirs." Dragon Master
• "They falter before my dragons." Dragon Master

Moving › Moving alongside Multiple Allies - Ally Team is Behind

• "Every moment we do not kill them, their advantage grows."
• "They move swiftly, for all the coins weighing them down."
• "The dagger is at our throats. But their hands quiver."
• "They think they have won. Prove them wrong."
• "Are you not children of Noxus?"
• "Do not fight for conquest, fight to survive!"
• "I too refuse to kneel... But it is only a matter of time." Dragon Master
• "Know when to die!" Dragon Master
• "They will not break. Perhaps they will burn." Dragon Master

Moving › Moving alongside Multiple Allies - Teams are Even

• "The battle is yet to be decided."
• "Patience is a virtue, but it has its limits."
• "The advantage is ours, if we take it."
• "A stalemate. How quaint."
• "Not losing is not winning either."
• "A truce in all but name."
• "It is wise to fear the future. It belongs to them." Dragon Master
• "Humankind. Dragonkind. Both hang in the balance." Dragon Master
• "A standstill. One would never know the world burns around us..." Dragon Master

First Encounter

First Encounter with Ahri

• "It is better to be feared than loved, Vastaya.

First Encounter with Bard

• "I don't know if you're the wisest being I've ever met, or a pile of mouldering blankets."

First Encounter with Cassiopeia

• "Ah yes, Cassiopeia. I admire your commitment to... metaphor."

First Encounter with Darius Both sides

• "Your trust may be misplaced, old friend. But it is appreciated.
• "It was only a matter of time, Darius. Do what you must."

First Encounter with Draven

• "You stood by me when I was outcast, so I stood by you when you were drunk. In spite of the stench.
• "Fame has gone to your head, and found ample room within."

First Encounter with Irelia Both sides

• "Am I to seek revenge for my poor departed arm? If anything girl, you did me a favor."

First Encounter with Jax

• "The mind is the weapon. You are unarmed."

First Encounter with Katarina

• "Do they know who killed your father, or do they still blame me?

First Encounter with Kindred

• "If you take me, you will leave Noxus with something far worse."

First Encounter with LeBlanc Both sides

• "We both move pawns in a grand game. And look at that—It seems I'm winning."
• "You see every flaw in me and you do not even blink. A bit unwise, wouldn't you say?
• "Life would be boring without surprises. You, certainly keep things... interesting."
• "I suppose this makes us enemies with benefits."

First Encounter with Poppy

• "People often ask for a hero, when a villain is what they truly need."

First Encounter with Rakan Both sides

• "The Vastaya blood is not in my veins. It is on my hands."

First Encounter with Riven

• "The best armor is being forgotten; and you my dear... are quite forgettable."

First Encounter with Shen

• "There can be no balance with a hand on the scale."

First Encounter with Singed

• "Why is he still alive? Another one of Darkwill's loose ends."

First Encounter with Sion Both sides

• "'Beware ravens'? The words of a fool who knew nothing of demons."

First Encounter with Urgot Both sides

• "Your message is your power. You have learned nothing."

First Encounter with a Black Rose Member

• "Thorns in my side, but your flower is truly something to behold."

First Encounter with a Demacian

• "All roads lead to Noxus—but all visions, to Demacia."
• "There is nothing noteworthy about Demacia, but that in itself is worth noting."

First Encounter with a Demon

• "You will find this delicate morsel, quite capable of fighting back."

First Encounter with a Noxian

• "The world may fall to darkness. But Noxus, will remain."

Taunt

• "I would not ask of anyone what I would not do myself."
• "Every day I rule, Noxus becomes a more perfect expression of my will."
• "The demon is always in the details."
• "There can be no unity without purpose; and there is one all men are born to."

Taunt Response

• "Not another word!"
• "When you run out of insults, try steel."

Taunt Response to Darius Both sides

• "You're the only man I know who believes his own words, even after he's said them."

Taunt Response to Sion or Urgot Both sides

• "If you plan on listing my crimes, mind you do not die of asphyxiation."

Joke

• "I have to know who has a crush on whom."
• "Which one of you is Beatrice again?"
• "Caw caw caw caw caw. There, are you satisfied?"
• "My birds are hungry."
• "I'll eat your soul myself." Tyrant

Joke Response

• "I am not smiling, I am threatening to smile. It is still a threat."
• "I own birds cleverer than you."

Attack

Attacking

• "The right to rule, held, in my hand."
• "Pity stays the hand of the merciful, but not mine."
• "You dare oppose Noxus?"
• "Weak of body; weak of mind."
• "This is the least of my crimes."
• "The ends of war are death."
• "Diplomacy is a subtle art."
• "And to think, they called me a 'cripple'."
• "Incompetence surrounds me."
• "Try to die with dignity."
• "How tedious."
• "Strength is the only teacher."
• "Do not try my patience."
• "If you insist on dying."
• "A conquered nation, is a loyal one."
• "We must remind them of their place."
• "You lack discipline."
• "A petty squabble for pettier men."
• "Empire above all."
• "Submit."
• "I will not tolerate interference!"
• "This will be my offering."
• "Sacrifices must be made."
• "You would do well to die, before my ravens find you."

Ability Casting

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment

• "Forfeit your life."
• "Death's hand."
• "In death, the veil is lifted."
• "Their whispers itch at the back of my mind."
• "What have the ravens brought me?"
• "I am not done with you yet."
• "Your soul was already mine."
• "The fire of conquest." Dragon Master
• "Obey." Dragon Master
• "Their memories burn away." Dragon Master
• "An echo in flames." Dragon Master
• "Conflagration." Dragon Master
• "Fellfire within us." Dragon Master
• "Snuffed out." Dragon Master
• "Mere flame remains." Dragon Master
• "Bring me their spark." Dragon Master
• "Souls, flame." Dragon Master

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Ashe

• "She claimed it was the Frost Queen's grave. They believed her."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Aurelion Sol

• "What is this about... siblings?"

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Camille

• "My my, does your dear grandniece know what C has been up to?"

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Cassiopeia

• "The payment for her suffering in Shurima: a black rose."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Darius Both sides

• "No daughters. Only soldiers."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Ekko

• "A glimpse, mere seconds into the future."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Elise

• "A vault empty of relics, but filled with corpses."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Fiora

• "She's spurned so many suitors. A wonder they did not see why."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Galio

• "His secrets died with his sculptor."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Garen

• "Ignorant of the very magic you carry into battle. How Demacian."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Jarvan IV

• "His blood is the only useful thing about him."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Jinx

• "Faces fading in the flames. It was all her fault."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Kalista

• "The first oath. The one she made to him."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Kassadin

• "So he's heard the rumours: the girl who came back."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Katarina

• "He asked her to do what she could not. To kill me."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Kayn

• "A child who had known only hate, confuses it for love."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Lux

• "Which is the greater tragedy, that she fell in battle, or that she fell in line?"

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Poppy

• "So many obsessed with the hero. Tell me of the hammer."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Quinn

• "Her arch-rival, a tuskvore? How undignified."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Riven

• "She held their hands as they died, hoping they would drag her with them."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Sion Both sides

• "The echo of a soul... Only pain brings it back."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Swain

• "I already knew that."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Tahm Kench

• "Your eloquence: seasoning for a repetitive feast."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Taliyah

• "She feared what she could not understand: herself."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from Warwick

• "She was closer than he realized."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Bilgewater Champion

• "They fight the mist above the seas, never looking beneath."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Black Rose Member

• "An empire, built atop centuries of murder."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Darkin

• "Creatures of darkness that grant power to their hosts? How original."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Demon

• "Shaped by humanity, a reflection."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Freljordian

• "They squabble as the winds howl, and the wards fade."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from an Ionian

• "Magic spills from their land like blood from a wound."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Piltovan

• "The truth beneath the gilding. Only war can bring profit."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Shadow Isles Champion

• "A king remains in the mist, and another marches."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Vastayan

• "Those born of magic rarely realize its curse, until it is too late."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Void Champion

• "A pattern, spreading... It has learnt to be alive."

Using Ravenous Flock › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Nearby Slain Enemy › Collecting a Soul Fragment from a Zaunite

• "Suffering pools in the depths where children play."

Using Vision of Empire

• "Nefa..."
• "Fah-la..."
• "Nas..."
• "Krah..."
• "Do..."

Kills and Objectives

Killing a Champion

• "That, is one way to surrender."
• "Victory awaits."
• "Another piece cleared from the board."
• "Death is its own prophecy."
• "Another disappointment."
• "The raven was a portent. Their time had come."
• "The sooner we kill them all, the sooner we can leave these forsaken wastes."

Killing Gangplank

• "The Leviathan belongs to me!"

Killing a Bilgewater Champion

• "Their lives are the plunder."

Killing a Demacian

• "A bit presumptuous to consider us... 'rivals'.
• "Predictable, as always."

Killing a Noxian

• "One less enemy within."
• "You were no longer useful."
• "In death, you will kneel."

Scoring a Pentakill

• "This is not even my final form."

Destroying a Turret

• "Let us end the siege."
• "One less place to hide."
• "Their defences crumble."
• "Stone is not strength."
• "What Noxus takes, it will defend."
• "Let them find hope in the rubble."
• "Prepare, and victory is inevitable."
• "All according to plan."
• "A one-armed man needs all the help he can get."
• "More important than heroes, are deeds."
• "Witness the strength of Noxus!"
• "Worth its weight in lives."
• "A monument to our victory."
• "It is mine, or it is no one's." Dragon Master
• "Only ashes remain." Dragon Master
• "Dragon claimed!" Dragon Master

Killing the Dragon

• "We have civilized the beast."
• "More than men must kneel to Noxus."
• "Its strength is ours."
• "Death comes to even the most fierce."
• "I almost pity the brute."
• "A savage roar, silenced."
• "Congratulations. We've outsmarted a beast."
• "You've exceeded my expectations."
• "Perhaps a promotion is in order. How would you like your own warband?"
• "I owe you a debt. ...That is not as ominous as it sounds."

Other Gameplay

Placing a Ward

• "Gathering intelligence."
• "I suppose it's easier than conquering a demon."
• "I never stop planning."
• "A raven's eye view."

Recall

• "More than what we do not understand, we fear being understood."
• "Some say the darkness stares back... because they cannot see me."
• "The more I see, the more I realize how much remains hidden."
• "Secrets whispered in the shadow... have a way of reaching my ears.
• "I often kill in my visions, when I close my eyes. Do not come near."

Death

• "Only this, and nothing more..."

Respawn

• "I have already walked the halls of death, in the Immortal Bastion."
• "They think they have won? Pathetic."
• "A minor setback; nothing more."
• "Am I reborn? The truth is rarely so simple."
• "It is still watching."
• "It is there in the silence after battle. It is there in me."