Alistar vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Alistar
based on 1,125 Alistar vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Alistar vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Alistar vs. Illaoi counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Illaoi. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Alistar or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Illaoi, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Illaoi. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically gets a lot less CS as Illaoi. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Alistar versus Illaoi build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Illaoi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Illaoi as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Alistar vs Illaoi LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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