Swain vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Swain
based on 2,520 Swain vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Swain vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Swain vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Swain
Tips for Playing as Swain against 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 Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Swain vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Swain in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some critical Swain vs. Alistar matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Swain’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Swain may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Alistar. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Swain typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Swain and Alistar
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Who is Better, Swain or Alistar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Swain usually wins when playing against Alistar, with a 55.5% win rate. Thus, Swain makes a fantastic counter for Alistar.
While Swain does have a much higher win rate than Alistar, when on opposite teams, Swain also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Swain into Alistaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Swain has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Swain vs Alistar matchups, Swain is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Swain is a great counter to Alistar. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Swain against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Swain to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Swain typically accumulates much more CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Swain versus Alistar build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Swain included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Alistar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Swain had an average winrate of 55.5% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Alistar as Swain, 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 combinations that we analyzed for Swain vs Alistar fights, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.5% win rate overall.
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