Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
Before that patch, could you elaborate on why you'd not use Swift on melee? I personally found it extremely convenient to be able to do whatever I wanted and get away with it on specific jobs. Especially handy to dodge premade attempts or certain LBs used by competent players to ruin your BH.
But, I'm mostly a CC player, and not especially a FL tryhard by any means. I've always found smite pretty overblown for what it does—but I do use it on certain melees that already have escape options and a lack of offensive power like RPR.
All the melee have great escapes, yeah. Even as a MNK or VPR, if you are ever in trouble and don't have a line of sight to someone to zip towards, it was probably not a fight to be in. For dealing with cc, it's ideal to use guard or purify before it hits, rather than after. SAM and VPR even get a free ticket out in their base kits.

Not that Swift isn't useful per se, but I'd gladly spend the MP to get in or out and have a tool that either gives me an early BH curve or, in the case of SAM especially, ridiculous sustain. Just millions and millions of healing, which now has a damage boost for some reason.