Alistar with Kayn
How to Synergize Alistar and Kayn
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Alistar Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Alistar Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kayn helps Alistar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Kayn, he observes a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Kayn supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Kayn 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 with Kayn.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Kayn on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kayn does a poor job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Kayn
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no top ally for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Kayn is a very typical teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Alistar and Kayn that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kayn has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players need to be careful when arranging Kayn comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Alistar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Kayn together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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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 pair well with Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Alistar and Kayn synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Kayn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.5% when playing alongside Kayn with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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