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.
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several critical Alistar against Draven matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Draven’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Draven. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Draven. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when facing off against Draven, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter to Draven.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate than Draven, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Dravenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Draven matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Draven. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Draven.
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Draven during both the laning 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 shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often racks up a lot less CS as Draven. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Draven build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Draven than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 52.0% when countering Draven with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Draven as Alistar, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar vs Draven clashes, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.0% winrate overall.
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