Alistar vs Swain
How to Beat Swain as Alistar
based on 2,520 Alistar vs Swain matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Swain Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Swain Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Swain as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against 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 Win Against Swain
Buying an item with Grievous Wounds will make Swain much easier to kill during his Demonic Ascension.
Swain's passive is very potent if you are immobilized. Make sure to be extra careful around enemies who have immobilizing effects.
High mobility counters all of Swain's basic abilities: Death's Hand does more damage the closer he is, Vision of Empire has a very long delay and Nevermove must start returning back to him to be dangerous.
Alistar vs Swain Counter Stats
How to Counter Swain with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some valuable Alistar against Swain counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Swain’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Swain..
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Swain. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Swain
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Who is Better, Alistar or Swain?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when facing off against Swain, with a 44.5% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a bad counter to Swain.
While Alistar does have a much lower winrate compared to Swain, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Alistar into Swainas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Swain. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Swain matchups, Swain is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Alistar is a trash counter for Swain. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Swain.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Swain during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often gets a lot less CS as Swain. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar versus Swain build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Swain than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 44.5% when playing against Swain with this counter build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Swain as Alistar, 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 runes players picked for Alistar vs Swain matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.5% winrate overall.
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