Alistar vs Syndra
How to Beat Syndra as Alistar
based on 1,497 Alistar vs Syndra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Syndra Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Syndra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Syndra as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Syndra
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 Syndra
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
Alistar vs Syndra Counter Stats
How to Counter Syndra with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Alistar versus Syndra matchup stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Syndra’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Syndra. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Syndra. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Syndra
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Who is Better, Alistar or Syndra?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when playing against Syndra, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a bad counter for Syndra.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate than Syndra, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Syndraas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Syndra. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Syndra matchups, Syndra is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a bad counter to Syndra. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Alistar against Syndra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Alistar to counter Syndra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should 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 Syndra. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Alistar versus Syndra build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Syndra than with most other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Syndra with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Syndra as Alistar, you should take 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 runes players picked for Alistar vs Syndra battles, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% winrate overall.
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