Alistar vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Alistar
based on 2,053 Alistar vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Alistar vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several strategic Alistar versus Tristana counter stats that may help you understand the differences between these two champs. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tristana. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives more damage than Tristana. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Tristana
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Who is Better, Alistar or Tristana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when trying to fight Tristana, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a good counter to Tristana.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Tristana, when facing one another, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Alistar into Tristanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Tristana matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a good counter for Tristana. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar usually gets a lot less CS compared to Tristana. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Alistar versus Tristana build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Tristana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 52.2% when countering Tristana with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Tristana 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Alistar vs Tristana clashes, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.2% win rate overall.
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