Alistar with Vi
How to Synergize Alistar and Vi
based on 1,711 Alistar with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Vi Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Vi
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Alistar Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vi helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Vi, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Vi provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Vi 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 Vi.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Vi on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vi does a poor job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Vi is a very typical teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, she improves their win rate by 0.1% to 49.5%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Alistar and Vi that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Vi has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be cautious when finding Vi allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Alistar and Vi together, you will not be providing your team a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Vi ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to work well with Vi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Alistar and Vi synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vi than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 49.5% helping carry Vi with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Alistar and Vi pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.5% winrate overall.
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