Alistar vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Alistar
based on 916 Alistar vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Alistar vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Alistar vs. Jayce matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Jayce. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Jayce. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Jayce
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Who is Better, Alistar or Jayce?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when playing against Jayce, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter for Jayce.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Jayce, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Alistar into Jayceas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jayce. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Jayce matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a good counter for Jayce. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Jayce during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Jayce. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Jayce build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Jayce than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 52.6% battling Jayce with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Jayce 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 players picked for Alistar vs Jayce counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Jayce as Alistar are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.