Alistar vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Alistar
based on 1,113 Alistar vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Nilah
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.
Alistar vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several influential Alistar against Nilah matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nilah. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nilah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Nilah
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Who is Better, Alistar or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when facing off against Nilah, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a poor counter for Nilah.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate compared to Nilah, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Nilahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Nilah matchups, Nilah is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Nilah. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually picks up a lot less CS compared to Nilah. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar versus Nilah 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 did a lot better versus Nilah than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 48.7% when playing against Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Nilah 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 chose for Alistar vs Nilah clashes, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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