Kayle vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Kayle
based on 1,881 Kayle vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Alistar
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Kayle against Alistar counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kayle typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Alistar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayle and Alistar
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Who is Better, Kayle or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when trying to fight Alistar, with a 51.4% win rate. Thus, Kayle makes a good counter for Alistar.
While Kayle does have a higher win rate than Alistar, when on opposite teams, Kayle also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kayle into Alistaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle 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 overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Alistar matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kayle is a decent counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle 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 listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle usually racks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Kayle versus Alistar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Kayle used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Alistar as Kayle, Kayle players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kayle vs Alistar matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.4% win rate overall.
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