Poppy vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Poppy
based on 1,207 Poppy vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Alistar
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Poppy in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Poppy versus Alistar matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Alistar..
Poppy usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Poppy and Alistar
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Who is Better, Poppy or Alistar?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually wins when facing off against Alistar, with a 56.3% win rate. Therefore, Poppy makes a fantastic counter for Alistar.
While Poppy does have a much higher winrate compared to Alistar, when on opposite teams, Poppy also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Poppy into Alistar.
Furthermore, Poppy also has a great deal 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Alistar matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Poppy is a great counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Poppy against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to counter Alistar during both the early game 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 shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy most often gets more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Poppy versus Alistar build include Unending Despair, Kaenic Rookern, and Sunfire Aegis. When Poppy combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 56.3% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Alistar as Poppy, Poppy players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Poppy vs Alistar battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 56.3% win rate overall.
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