Elise vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Elise
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Elise vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Alistar
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Elise vs. Alistar counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences between these two champs. Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Elise usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Alistar
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Who is Better, Elise or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually fairs equally well when taking on Alistar, with a 49.9% win rate. As a result, Elise makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Elise does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Elise also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Elise into Alistaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Elise vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Elise is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Elise against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Alistar 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise usually gets a similar amount of CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Elise versus Alistar build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Alistar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Elise had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing against Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Alistar as Elise, Elise players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Elise vs Alistar clashes, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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