Alistar vs Viego
How to Beat Viego as Alistar
based on 2,599 Alistar vs Viego matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Viego Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viego as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Viego
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.
Alistar vs Viego Counter Stats
How to Counter Viego with Alistar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several important Alistar against Viego counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viego’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Viego. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Alistar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Viego. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Viego
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Who is Better, Alistar or Viego?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually loses when taking on Viego, with a 48.7% win rate. As a result, Alistar makes a bad counter for Viego.
While Alistar does have a lower winrate compared to Viego, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Viegoas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viego. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Viego matchups, Viego is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Alistar is a somewhat poor counter for Viego. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Viego.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Viego during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Viego. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Viego build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Viego than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 48.7% battling Viego with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Viego as Alistar, you should use 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 rune combinations players chose for Alistar vs Viego face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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