Heimerdinger vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Heimerdinger
based on 875 Heimerdinger vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Alistar
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some significant Heimerdinger versus Alistar counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar..
Heimerdinger typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Alistar
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 50.1% win rate. Therefore, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Heimerdinger also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Heimerdinger into Alistaras his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Heimerdinger also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Alistar matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Heimerdinger against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Heimerdinger in order to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger on average gets much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale 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 exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Heimerdinger versus Alistar build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Heimerdinger combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 50.1% when countering Alistar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Alistar as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Heimerdinger vs Alistar face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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