Vayne vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Vayne
based on 3,999 Vayne vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Alistar
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Vayne in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several vital Vayne versus Alistar matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champs. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Vayne may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Vayne typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives less damage than Alistar. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Alistar
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Who is Better, Vayne or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vayne usually wins when trying to fight Alistar, with a 52.5% win rate. Therefore, Vayne makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Vayne does have a higher win rate than Alistar, when facing one another, Vayne also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Vayne into Alistaras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Vayne also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Vayne vs Alistar matchups, Vayne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Vayne is a good counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne most often picks up much more CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Vayne versus Alistar build include Experimental Hexplate, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vayne boasted an average winrate of 52.5% when countering Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Alistar as Vayne, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Vayne vs Alistar matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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