Alistar with Yasuo
How to Synergize Alistar and Yasuo
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Alistar Yasuo Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Yasuo
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 Yasuo Will Play
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Alistar Yasuo Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yasuo as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Yasuo synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yasuo, 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 Yasuo. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Yasuo helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is paired with Yasuo, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Yasuo does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Yasuo on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yasuo. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Yasuo.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Yasuo on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Yasuo does a decent job of covering Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Yasuo
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Yasuo?
There is no one best synergy for Alistar that will always be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Yasuo is a very typical companion for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, he improves their win rate by 0.5% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Alistar and Yasuo that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Yasuo has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players need to be cautious when arranging Yasuo teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Alistar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Yasuo together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough AP. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yasuo ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 in order to synergize with Yasuo during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Alistar and Yasuo synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Yasuo than with many other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yasuo with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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