Alistar vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Alistar
based on 805 Alistar vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Alistar vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several valuable Alistar against Sivir matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between these two champs. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sivir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Sivir. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Sivir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Sivir
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Who is Better, Alistar or Sivir?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when trying to fight Sivir, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a good counter to Sivir.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate than Sivir, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Siviras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Sivir 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 late stage team fights.
Alistar is a decent counter to Sivir. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Sivir during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Sivir. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar versus Sivir build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Sivir than with most other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 51.8% when playing against Sivir with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Sivir as Alistar, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Alistar vs Sivir LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% winrate overall.
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