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.
Focus on dodging Wild Cards early when your champion doesn't have the hit points to afford getting hit.
If you have low Health, use Destiny as an indicator to run to safety. It will give you a head start in escaping any possible ganks.
The stats shown here show some strategic Alistar vs. Twisted Fate matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Twisted Fate’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Twisted Fate. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Twisted Fate. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Twisted Fate, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes an ok counter to Twisted Fate.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Twisted Fate, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Twisted Fateas 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 very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Twisted Fate. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Twisted Fate matchups, Twisted Fate is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter to Twisted Fate. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Twisted Fate.
To truly master Alistar in order to counter Twisted Fate during both the early game 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 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 Twisted Fate. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Twisted Fate build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Twisted Fate than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 49.6% battling Twisted Fate with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Twisted Fate as Alistar, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Alistar vs Twisted Fate battles, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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