Alistar vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Alistar
based on 1,472 Alistar vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Alistar vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Alistar versus Talon matchup statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Talon’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Talon. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Talon. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Talon
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Who is Better, Alistar or Talon?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when facing off against Talon, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a good counter to Talon.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Talon, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Talonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Talon matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Talon. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar in order to counter Talon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often gets a lot less CS as Talon. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Alistar versus Talon build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Talon than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 51.2% battling Talon with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Talon as Alistar, you should use 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 runes players picked for Alistar vs Talon counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% winrate overall.
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