Kassadin with Alistar
How to Synergize Kassadin and Alistar
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Kassadin Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
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.
Kassadin Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Kassadin perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin is an ally to Alistar, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Alistar doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Alistar on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Kassadin in team fights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Alistar
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top companion for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Alistar is a very typical companion for Kassadin. By playing on the same team as Kassadin, he decreases their win rate by -0.3% to 49.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Kassadin and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Kassadin and Alistar together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to 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
To truly master Kassadin in order to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Kassadin and Alistar synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Kassadin and Alistar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
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