Alistar vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Alistar
based on 2,869 Alistar vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Alistar vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several important Alistar versus Kayn matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayn. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kayn. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Kayn
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Who is Better, Alistar or Kayn?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kayn, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes an ok counter to Kayn.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Kayn, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Kaynas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayn. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Kayn matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Kayn. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Kayn during both the early game 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 listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Kayn. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Alistar versus Kayn build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Kayn than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing against Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Kayn as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Alistar vs Kayn counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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