Irelia vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Irelia
based on 1,759 Irelia vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Irelia vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Irelia vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Irelia
Tips for Playing as Irelia against Alistar
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Irelia in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some critical Irelia versus Alistar matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between these two champs. Irelia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Irelia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Irelia normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Irelia and Alistar
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Who is Better, Irelia or Alistar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Irelia usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Irelia makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Irelia does have a lower winrate than Alistar, when they face off with one another, Irelia also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Irelia into Alistar.
Furthermore, Irelia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Irelia 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 team members during team fights.
Irelia is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Irelia against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to counter Alistar during both the laning 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 suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Irelia often racks up much more CS compared to Alistar. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Irelia versus Alistar build include Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Death's Dance. When Irelia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs. Alistar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Alistar as Irelia, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Irelia vs Alistar counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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