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.
Miss Fortune's speed boost is removed if she is damaged by an enemy.
Miss Fortune is easy to kill if you can reach her; target her first in team fights.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Alistar vs. Miss Fortune matchup statistics that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Miss Fortune’s ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Miss Fortune. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Miss Fortune. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually loses when facing off against Miss Fortune, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a poor counter to Miss Fortune.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate compared to Miss Fortune, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Miss Fortuneas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Miss Fortune. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Miss Fortune matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Alistar is a terribly counter to Miss Fortune. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Miss Fortune.
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Miss Fortune during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Miss Fortune. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Alistar versus Miss Fortune build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Miss Fortune than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 46.4% when countering Miss Fortune with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Miss Fortune as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Alistar vs Miss Fortune face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
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