Alistar vs Blitzcrank
How to Beat Blitzcrank as Alistar
based on 3,340 Alistar vs Blitzcrank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Blitzcrank Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Blitzcrank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Blitzcrank as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Blitzcrank
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 Win Against Blitzcrank
Staying behind creeps can prevent you from being Rocket Grabbed. Blitzcrank's Rocket Grab only pulls the first enemy target it encounters.
Blitzcrank's passive Mana Barrier grants him a shield when he is low on health.
Alistar vs Blitzcrank Counter Stats
How to Counter Blitzcrank with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Alistar against Blitzcrank counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Blitzcrank’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Blitzcrank..
Alistar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Blitzcrank. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Blitzcrank
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Who is Better, Alistar or Blitzcrank?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when playing against Blitzcrank, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Blitzcrank.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Blitzcrank, when facing one another, Alistar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Blitzcrankas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Blitzcrank. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Blitzcrank matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Blitzcrank. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Blitzcrank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Blitzcrank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Blitzcrank. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Blitzcrank build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Blitzcrank than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 50.3% battling Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Blitzcrank as Alistar, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Alistar vs Blitzcrank counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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