Viktor with Alistar
How to Synergize Viktor and Alistar
based on 930 Viktor with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Viktor Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Viktor vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Viktor and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Viktor with Alistar
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
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.
Viktor Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Viktor in LoL
The Viktor 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, Viktor sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Viktor perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Viktor is paired with Alistar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Alistar provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Viktor is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Viktor plays with Alistar on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Viktor in teamfights.
Synergies between Viktor and Alistar
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Is Viktor better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no top companion for Viktor that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Alistar is a pretty good teammate for Viktor. By locking into the same team as Viktor, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 51.2%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Viktor and Alistar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Viktor. That means Viktor players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Viktor players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Viktor and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Viktor in order to synergize with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Viktor and Alistar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Viktor used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Viktor had an average win rate of 51.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Viktor players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Alistar with Viktor are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.