Alistar with Kassadin
How to Synergize Alistar and Kassadin
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Alistar Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Alistar Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kassadin helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Kassadin, he observes a noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Kassadin does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Kassadin on the same side, he typically takes less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Kassadin
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Alistar that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Kassadin is a very typical ally for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 0.3% to 49.7%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Alistar and Kassadin that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Kassadin has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players should be cautious when lining up Kassadin allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Kassadin together, you will not be giving your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to work well with Kassadin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Alistar and Kassadin synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
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