Alistar vs Twitch
How to Beat Twitch as Alistar
based on 2,570 Alistar vs Twitch matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Twitch Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Twitch Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Twitch as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Twitch
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 Twitch
Spell Shields won't block the damage from Deadly Venom, but they will block the effects Twitch can trigger with it.
If you suspect Twitch has left the lane, let your teammates know that Twitch is ''MIA.''
Twitch is fragile. Work with teammates to focus on him when you're able to catch him out of Camouflage.
Alistar vs Twitch Counter Stats
How to Counter Twitch with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Alistar versus Twitch counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Twitch’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Twitch. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Twitch. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Twitch
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Who is Better, Alistar or Twitch?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Twitch, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes an ok counter to Twitch.
While Alistar does have a lower win rate than Twitch, when on opposite teams, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Alistar into Twitchas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a lot of utility and CC, a similar amount to Twitch. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Twitch matchups, Twitch is the better champ with a similar 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 somewhat poor counter to Twitch. Focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Twitch.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to counter Twitch during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, 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 Twitch. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Alistar versus Twitch build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Twitch than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 49.1% battling Twitch with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Twitch as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Alistar vs Twitch battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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