Alistar with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Alistar and Blitzcrank
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Alistar Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Blitzcrank
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Understand How Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Alistar Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Blitzcrank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Blitzcrank helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is an ally to Blitzcrank, he sees a great improvement in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Blitzcrank helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Blitzcrank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Blitzcrank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Blitzcrank.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Blitzcrank on the same team, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Blitzcrank does a poor job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Blitzcrank
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Blitzcrank is a relatively poor ally for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he drops their win rate by -2.1% to 47.3%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Alistar and Blitzcrank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Blitzcrank has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when lining up Blitzcrank teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Alistar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to soak up damage. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by pairing Alistar and Blitzcrank together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Blitzcrank teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar to work well with Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Alistar and Blitzcrank synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Blitzcrank than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 47.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Blitzcrank with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Alistar players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Alistar and Blitzcrank pairings, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
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