Alistar vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Alistar
based on 774 Alistar vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Alistar vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Alistar vs. Taliyah matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Alistar or Taliyah?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when trying to fight Taliyah, with a 44.2% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a poor counter to Taliyah.
While Alistar does have a much lower winrate than Taliyah, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Alistar into Taliyahas 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 amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taliyah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a terribly counter to Taliyah. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Taliyah.
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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 Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Taliyah. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Alistar versus Taliyah build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Taliyah than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 44.2% when playing against Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Taliyah as Alistar, Alistar players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Alistar vs Taliyah fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.2% winrate overall.
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