Viktor vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Viktor
based on 987 Viktor vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Viktor vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Viktor vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Viktor
Tips for Playing as Viktor against Alistar
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Viktor in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Viktor against Alistar counter statistics that can help you understand the differences between this set of champs. Viktor’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Viktor may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Viktor often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Alistar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Viktor and Alistar
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Who is Better, Viktor or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Viktor usually wins when taking on Alistar, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Viktor makes a good counter for Alistar.
While Viktor does have a higher winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Viktor also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Viktor into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Viktor 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Viktor vs Alistar matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Viktor is a decent counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Viktor against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Viktor in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Viktor usually picks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Viktor versus Alistar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Alistar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Viktor had an average winrate of 51.1% when playing against Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Alistar as Viktor, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Viktor vs Alistar clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.1% winrate overall.
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