Alistar vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Alistar
based on 658 Alistar vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Alistar vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some significant Alistar against Cassiopeia matchup stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Cassiopeia’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Alistar or Cassiopeia?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when playing against Cassiopeia, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Cassiopeia.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Cassiopeia, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Cassiopeiaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Cassiopeia matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Cassiopeia. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Cassiopeia 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 mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average gets a lot less CS compared to Cassiopeia. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Alistar versus Cassiopeia build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Cassiopeia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 50.3% battling Cassiopeia with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Cassiopeia as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Alistar vs Cassiopeia clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% winrate overall.
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