Bard vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Bard
based on 2,031 Bard vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Alistar Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Alistar
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several valuable Bard against Alistar counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Alistar..
Bard normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Alistar
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Who is Better, Bard or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Alistar, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a great counter for Alistar.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Alistar, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Alistar matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Bard is a great counter to Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Alistar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Bard versus Alistar build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 53.1% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Alistar as Bard, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Alistar counters, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.1% winrate overall.
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