Alistar vs Aatrox
How to Beat Aatrox as Alistar
based on 3,433 Alistar vs Aatrox matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Aatrox Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Aatrox Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aatrox as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Aatrox
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 Aatrox
Aatrox's Infernal Chains are easier to exit when running towards the sides or at Aatrox.
Aatrox's attacks are very telegraphed, so use the time to dodge the hit zones.
Keep your distance when Aatrox uses his Ultimate to prevent him from reviving.
Alistar vs Aatrox Counter Stats
How to Counter Aatrox with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Alistar versus Aatrox matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Aatrox’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Aatrox. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Aatrox. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Aatrox
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Who is Better, Alistar or Aatrox?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when playing against Aatrox, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Aatrox.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate compared to Aatrox, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Aatroxas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aatrox. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Aatrox matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Aatrox. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Aatrox.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Aatrox during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically accumulates a lot less CS as Aatrox. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Alistar versus Aatrox build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Aatrox than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Aatrox with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Aatrox as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar vs Aatrox face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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