Anivia vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Anivia
based on 903 Anivia vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Anivia vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Alistar
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Anivia vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Anivia versus Alistar counter stats that may help you interpret the distinctions between these two champions. For instance, Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Anivia usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Anivia and Alistar
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Who is Better, Anivia or Alistar?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Anivia usually wins when trying to fight Alistar, with a 51.3% win rate. Thus, Anivia makes a good counter to Alistar.
While Anivia does have a higher winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Anivia also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Anivia into Alistaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Anivia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often 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 Anivia vs Alistar matchups, Anivia is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Anivia is a decent counter to Alistar. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Anivia against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Anivia in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia usually picks up much more CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Anivia versus Alistar build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Anivia boasted an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Alistar as Anivia, Anivia players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Anivia vs Alistar battles, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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