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.
Fizz's attacks becomes more deadly for a few seconds after he uses his empowered attack - keep him away while his trident is glowing!
Fizz is a slippery target when his abilities are not on cooldown - bait him into using them early and follow up with crowd control or hard-hitting attacks!
The stats shown on this page feature some important Alistar vs. Fizz counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fizz’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Fizz. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Fizz. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
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 taking on Fizz, with a 46.8% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a poor counter for Fizz.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Fizz, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Alistar into Fizzas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fizz. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Fizz matchups, Fizz is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Alistar is a terribly counter for Fizz. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Fizz.
If you would like to truly master Alistar to counter Fizz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a lot less CS as Fizz. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Alistar versus Fizz build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Fizz than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Fizz with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Fizz as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Alistar vs Fizz face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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