Alistar vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Alistar
based on 665 Alistar vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Alistar vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some valuable Alistar against Kalista matchup stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kalista. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Kalista
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Who is Better, Alistar or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kalista, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter for Kalista.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Kalista matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Kalista 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often gets a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities 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 do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Alistar versus Kalista build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Kalista with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Kalista as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Alistar vs Kalista clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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