Gwen with Alistar
How to Synergize Gwen and Alistar
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Gwen Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Alistar
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Gwen perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is paired with Alistar, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This could indicate that Alistar supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Alistar on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of covering Gwen during teamfights.
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect ally for Gwen that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, overall, Alistar is a below average teammate for Gwen. By being on the same side as Gwen, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 46.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Gwen and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means you should be cautious when lining up Alistar allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gwen and Alistar together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen to synergize with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Gwen and Alistar synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Riftmaker, and Shadowflame. When Gwen incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Alistar with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.7% win rate overall.
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