Ahri vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Ahri
based on 1,764 Ahri vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Alistar
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several critical Ahri versus Alistar matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Ahri usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Alistar
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Who is Better, Ahri or Alistar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a poor counter for Alistar.
While Ahri does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Ahri also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ahri into Alistar.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is a garbage counter for Alistar. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ahri against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Ahri in order to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often picks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Alistar build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 47.8% battling Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Alistar as Ahri, Ahri players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Ahri vs Alistar matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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