Alistar with Gwen
How to Synergize Alistar and Gwen
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Alistar Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Gwen
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Alistar Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gwen helps Alistar perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Gwen, he sees a moderate decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Gwen does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Gwen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gwen.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Gwen on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no perfect companion for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Gwen is a relatively poor teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -2.7% to 46.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Alistar and Gwen that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Gwen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Alistar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Alistar and Gwen together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Gwen teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to work well with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Alistar and Gwen synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Gwen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.7% winrate overall.
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