Tristana vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Tristana
based on 2,053 Tristana vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Alistar
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Tristana vs. Alistar matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Tristana often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives less damage than Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Alistar
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Who is Better, Tristana or Alistar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Tristana usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes a bad counter for Alistar.
While Tristana does have a lower winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Tristana into Alistar.
Additionally, Tristana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Tristana is a garbage counter to Alistar. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average accumulates much more CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Tristana versus Alistar build include Kraken Slayer, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average win rate of 47.8% battling Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Alistar as Tristana, you should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Tristana vs Alistar battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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