Alistar with Leona
How to Synergize Alistar and Leona
based on 133 Alistar with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Leona Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Leona Counter Build
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Core Alistar Items
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Leona
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Alistar Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Leona helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Leona, he gets a massive increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Leona supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Leona on the same team, he often receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Leona does a poor job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Leona
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Leona is a relatively poor companion for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, she decreases their win rate by -2.8% to 46.6%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Alistar and Leona that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Leona allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Leona together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Leona ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 synergize with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Alistar and Leona synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Leona than with most other common builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 46.6% helping carry Leona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Alistar players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Leona with Alistar are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.