Katarina vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Katarina
based on 2,304 Katarina vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Alistar
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several critical Katarina versus Alistar counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina usually has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Alistar
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Who is Better, Katarina or Alistar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 50.2% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Katarina does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Alistaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Katarina also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Alistar matchups, Katarina 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.
Katarina is a decent counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually gets much more CS compared to Alistar. Champions who on average 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 properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Katarina versus Alistar build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Katarina used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 50.2% battling Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Alistar as Katarina, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Alistar battles, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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