Alistar with Irelia
How to Synergize Alistar and Irelia
based on 1,641 Alistar with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Alistar Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Alistar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Irelia, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Irelia does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Irelia. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Irelia.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Irelia on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Irelia
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Irelia is a very typical companion for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 48.4%. This proves that there is only a small bond between Alistar and Irelia that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Irelia has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Irelia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your team much magical damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Alistar and Irelia synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Irelia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Irelia with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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