Alistar vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Alistar
based on 3,179 Alistar vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Alistar vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several important Alistar against Master Yi counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Master Yi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Alistar or Master Yi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when taking on Master Yi, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Master Yi.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Master Yi, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Master Yias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Master Yi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar in order to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Master Yi. Champs who on average don't earn much CS 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Master Yi build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better against Master Yi than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.2% battling Master Yi with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Master Yi 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. Of all the runes players used for Alistar vs Master Yi battles, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.2% win rate overall.
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