Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Alistar against Elise matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between these two champions. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Elise. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when taking on Elise, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a poor counter to Elise.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Elise, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Alistar into Eliseas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Elise matchups, Elise is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Alistar is a trash counter to Elise. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Elise.
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Elise during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Elise. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Elise build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Zeke's Convergence, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Elise than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Elise with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Elise as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Revitalize, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Alistar vs Elise battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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