Alistar vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Alistar
based on 771 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 versus Anivia matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Anivia’s 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 a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Anivia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Anivia
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Who is Better, Alistar or Anivia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when facing off against Anivia, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a poor counter for Anivia.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Anivia, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Aniviaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Anivia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Alistar is a bad counter to Anivia. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Anivia. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Anivia build include Evenshroud, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Anivia than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when playing against Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Anivia as Alistar, you should take 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 combinations players used for Alistar vs Anivia LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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