Alistar vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Alistar
based on 956 Alistar vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Alistar vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several influential Alistar vs. Jarvan IV matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences between these two champions. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jarvan IV’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jarvan IV..
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Jarvan IV. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Alistar or Jarvan IV?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when taking on Jarvan IV, with a 50.9% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter to Jarvan IV.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Jarvan IV, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Jarvan IVas 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 very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Jarvan IV matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Jarvan IV. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Jarvan IV.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Jarvan IV during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Jarvan IV. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Alistar versus Jarvan IV build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Jarvan IV than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when countering Jarvan IV with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Jarvan IV 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Alistar vs Jarvan IV battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jarvan IV as Alistar are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.