Alistar vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Alistar
based on 2,322 Alistar vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Alistar vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Alistar versus Darius counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champions. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Darius’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Darius. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Darius. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Darius
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Who is Better, Alistar or Darius?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when taking on Darius, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter to Darius.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Darius, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Dariusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Darius. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually gets a lot less CS relative to Darius. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Alistar versus Darius build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Darius than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.0% when countering Darius with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Darius as Alistar, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Alistar vs Darius matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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