Alistar vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Alistar
based on 1,881 Alistar vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Alistar vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here show several critical Alistar against Kayle matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kayle. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Kayle. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Kayle
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Who is Better, Alistar or Kayle?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when trying to fight Kayle, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a bad counter to Kayle.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Kayle, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Kayleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Kayle. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar on average gets a lot less CS relative to Kayle. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Alistar versus Kayle build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Kayle than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Kayle with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Kayle as Alistar, you should use 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 rune sets players used for Alistar vs Kayle battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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