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.
Watch Kled's courage bar when he's off his mount - when it reaches 100%, he will remount and regain a significant amount of health.
Kled is much more threatening when he has Violent Tendencies ready.
Kled generates courage by damaging enemies with his Pocket Pistol and basic attacks, killing minions, and attacking structures or epic monsters.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some strategic Alistar against Kled counter stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kled’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kled. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives less damage than Kled. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kled, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Kled.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate compared to Kled, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Kledas 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 lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kled. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Kled matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Kled. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Kled.
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Kled during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often racks up a lot less CS compared to Kled. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Alistar versus Kled build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Kled than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.3% battling Kled with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Kled 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for Alistar vs Kled counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.3% win rate overall.
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