Swain with Alistar
How to Synergize Swain and Alistar
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Swain Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Swain and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Swain with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
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.
Swain Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Swain in LoL
The Swain Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Swain sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Swain perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Swain is paired with Alistar, he sees a noticable increase in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Alistar helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Swain is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Swain plays with Alistar on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Alistar does a poor job of covering Swain during teamfights.
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Is Swain better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top synergy for Swain that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very typical ally for Swain. By being on the same side as Swain, he raises their win rate by 0.3% to 51.6%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Swain and Alistar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Swain. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Alistar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by grouping Swain and Alistar together, you will not be granting your team very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Swain to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Swain and Alistar synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Swain boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
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