Ashe vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Ashe
based on 3,975 Ashe vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ashe vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Ashe vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Ashe
Tips for Playing as Ashe against Alistar
Hawkshot reveals units in brush. If a team fight is occuring in the jungle it can give you a significant advantage.
Volley arrows are blocked by the first enemy they hit, so keep your distance to avoid having them all absorbed by enemy frontliners.
Try to fire Enchanted Crystal Arrow in the same direction enemies are moving, so it is more likely to hit.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Ashe vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Ashe in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several strategic Ashe against Alistar counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Ashe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ashe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Ashe normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ashe and Alistar
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Who is Better, Ashe or Alistar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ashe usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Ashe makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Ashe does have a lower win rate than Alistar, when they face off with one another, Ashe also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ashe into Alistar.
Additionally, Ashe also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ashe vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Ashe is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ashe against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ashe in order to counter Alistar during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ashe often racks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Ashe versus Alistar build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Kraken Slayer. When Ashe incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Alistar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ashe had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Alistar as Ashe, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Ashe vs Alistar LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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