Alistar vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Alistar
based on 2,043 Alistar vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Alistar vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Alistar versus Lee Sin counter statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lee Sin. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Alistar or Lee Sin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when playing against Lee Sin, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter for Lee Sin.
While Alistar does have a higher win rate compared to Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Lee Sin matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Lee Sin. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Alistar versus Lee Sin build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Lee Sin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 51.1% when countering Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Lee Sin as Alistar, Alistar players 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 builds players picked for Alistar vs Lee Sin matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% winrate overall.
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