Alistar with Brand
How to Synergize Alistar and Brand
based on 2,626 Alistar with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Brand Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Brand
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Alistar Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Brand helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Brand, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Brand does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Brand.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Brand on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Brand does a poor job of covering Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Brand
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Brand?
There is no ideal synergy for Alistar that will always be his best ally. Yet, overall, Brand is a fantastic ally for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 3.0% to 52.4%. This shows that there is a very real strategic relationship between Alistar and Brand that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when arranging Brand comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Alistar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Brand together, you probably will not be giving your team much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Brand teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Alistar Brand Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Alistar and Brand synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 52.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.4% winrate overall.
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