Alistar vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Alistar
based on 2,526 Alistar vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Alistar vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several valuable Alistar versus Warwick matchup statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Warwick. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Warwick. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Alistar and Warwick
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Who is Better, Alistar or Warwick?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Alistar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Warwick, with a 50.0% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes an ok counter for Warwick.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Warwick, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Alistar into Warwickas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Alistar also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Warwick matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Alistar is a decent counter for Warwick. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Warwick.
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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 Warwick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often picks up less CS compared to Warwick. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Alistar versus Warwick build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Warwick than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when countering Warwick with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Warwick as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Alistar vs Warwick clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% winrate overall.
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