Annie vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Annie
based on 991 Annie vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Annie vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Annie vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Annie
Tips for Playing as Annie against Alistar
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Annie in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several important Annie vs. Alistar counter stats that may help you interpret the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Annie’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Annie may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Annie typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Annie and Alistar
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Who is Better, Annie or Alistar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Annie usually loses when playing against Alistar, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Annie makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Annie does have a lower winrate than Alistar, when on opposite teams, Annie also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Annie into Alistar.
Moreover, Annie has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Annie vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Annie is a trash counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Annie against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Annie in order to counter Alistar during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Annie on average racks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Annie versus Alistar build include Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Alistar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Alistar as Annie, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Annie vs Alistar clashes, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.5% winrate overall.
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