Alistar with Swain
How to Synergize Alistar and Swain
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Alistar Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Swain
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
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.
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.
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.
Alistar Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Swain helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Swain, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Swain provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Swain on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Swain.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Swain on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Swain does a poor job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Swain?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Swain is a pretty good ally for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 2.2% to 51.6%. This shows that there is a somewhat important synergy between Alistar and Swain that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Swain has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players must be very careful when arranging Swain teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Alistar and Swain together, you probably will not be providing your side much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Swain ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to pair well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Alistar and Swain synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Swain than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Alistar and Swain pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Swain with Alistar are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.