Alistar vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Alistar
based on 1,042 Alistar vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Zed
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Advice to Win Against Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Alistar vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Alistar vs. Zed counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Zed. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zed. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Zed
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Who is Better, Alistar or Zed?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Zed, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter for Zed.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate than Zed, when facing one another, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Zedas 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 great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Zed. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically picks up a lot less CS as Zed. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Alistar versus Zed build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Thornmail, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.0% battling Zed with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Zed as Alistar, Alistar players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Alistar vs Zed counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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