Alistar with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Alistar and Kai'Sa
based on 3,300 Alistar with Kai'Sa pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Alistar Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Kai'Sa does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Kai'Sa.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Kai'Sa does a poor job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Kai'Sa
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no perfect ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, overall, Kai'Sa is a below average teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -1.8% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Alistar and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when finding Kai'Sa allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Alistar and Kai'Sa together, you will not be granting your other allies enough magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Alistar and Kai'Sa synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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