Alistar vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Alistar
based on 1,301 Alistar vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Alistar vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some significant Alistar versus Kindred counter stats that may help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kindred’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kindred. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kindred. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Kindred
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Who is Better, Alistar or Kindred?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when trying to fight Kindred, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a good counter to Kindred.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Kindred, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Kindredas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Kindred matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Kindred. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often picks up a similar amount of CS as Kindred. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Alistar versus Kindred build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Kindred than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when countering Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Kindred 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. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Alistar vs Kindred matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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