Alistar vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Alistar
based on 1,759 Alistar vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Alistar vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some important Alistar against Irelia counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Irelia
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Who is Better, Alistar or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when taking on Irelia, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Irelia.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Irelia matchups, Alistar 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 Irelia. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually accumulates a lot less CS as Irelia. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Alistar versus Irelia build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Irelia than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.4% when playing against Irelia with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Irelia as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Alistar vs Irelia matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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