Alistar vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Alistar
based on 903 Alistar vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Anivia Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Anivia
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 Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Alistar vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Alistar vs. Anivia counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences between this set of champions. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Anivia. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Anivia
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Who is Better, Alistar or Anivia?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Anivia, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a poor counter to Anivia.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate compared to Anivia, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Aniviaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Anivia. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar to counter Anivia during both the lane 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Anivia. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Anivia build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Anivia than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 48.7% battling Anivia with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Anivia as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Alistar vs Anivia battles, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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