Zed vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Zed
based on 2,261 Zed vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Alistar
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Zed vs. Alistar counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Zed normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zed and Alistar
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Who is Better, Zed or Alistar?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Zed usually fairs equally well when playing against Alistar, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Zed makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Zed also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Zed into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically picks up much more CS as Alistar. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 top items to have in your Zed versus Alistar build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Alistar than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Alistar as Zed, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Zed vs Alistar LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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