Alistar vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Alistar
based on 904 Alistar vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Alistar vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Alistar against Lissandra matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the pair. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lissandra’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lissandra. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Lissandra. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Alistar or Lissandra?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Lissandra, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a poor counter for Lissandra.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Alistar into Lissandraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Lissandra matchups, Lissandra is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is a bad counter for Lissandra. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often gets a lot less CS compared to Lissandra. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy 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, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Alistar versus Lissandra build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Lissandra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Lissandra as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Alistar vs Lissandra matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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