Alistar vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Alistar
based on 2,304 Alistar vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Alistar vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some critical Alistar vs. Katarina matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champions. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Katarina
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Who is Better, Alistar or Katarina?
Both LoL champions 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 Katarina, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Katarina.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Katarinaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Katarina matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Katarina. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Katarina. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Katarina build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Katarina than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 49.8% battling Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Katarina 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. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Alistar vs Katarina counters, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% win rate overall.
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