Alistar vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Alistar
based on 3,013 Alistar vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Hwei
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 Win Against Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Alistar vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some vital Alistar vs. Hwei counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Hwei. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Hwei. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Hwei
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Who is Better, Alistar or Hwei?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 53.7% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a great counter for Hwei.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Hwei, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Alistar into Hweias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Hwei matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a great counter to Hwei. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar in order to counter Hwei during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often gets a lot less CS as Hwei. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar versus Hwei build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Hwei than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 53.7% when countering Hwei with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Hwei as Alistar, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Alistar vs Hwei counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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