Alistar vs Rumble
How to Beat Rumble as Alistar
based on 1,205 Alistar vs Rumble matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Rumble Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Rumble Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rumble as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Rumble
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 Rumble
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
Alistar vs Rumble Counter Stats
How to Counter Rumble with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Alistar against Rumble counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rumble’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Rumble. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Rumble. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Rumble
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Who is Better, Alistar or Rumble?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when trying to fight Rumble, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a bad counter for Rumble.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Rumble, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Rumbleas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champ with a much 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 garbage counter to Rumble. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Rumble.
Other Champion Matchups Against Alistar
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How We Calculated Our Alistar vs Rumble Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Rumble during both the lane 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 shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a lot less CS as Rumble. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Alistar versus Rumble build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Rumble than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing against Rumble with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Rumble as Alistar, Alistar players should equip 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 that we analyzed for Alistar vs Rumble LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rumble as Alistar are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.