Alistar vs Ezreal
How to Beat Ezreal as Alistar
based on 3,991 Alistar vs Ezreal matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Ezreal Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Ezreal Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ezreal as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Ezreal
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 Ezreal
Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects including the Crest of Cinders.
Alistar vs Ezreal Counter Stats
How to Counter Ezreal with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Alistar vs. Ezreal counter stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ezreal’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ezreal. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Ezreal. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Ezreal
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Who is Better, Alistar or Ezreal?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when facing off against Ezreal, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a good counter for Ezreal.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate than Ezreal, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Ezrealas 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 Ezreal. 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 in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Ezreal matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Ezreal. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Ezreal.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar to counter Ezreal during both the lane 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Ezreal. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Ezreal build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Ezreal than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 51.6% battling Ezreal with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ezreal as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Alistar vs Ezreal fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Ezreal as Alistar are presented for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.