Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Dr. Mundo versus Alistar matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar..
Dr. Mundo typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes more damage than Alistar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Alistar, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Dr. Mundo makes an ok counter for Alistar.
While Dr. Mundo does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Dr. Mundo also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Dr. Mundo into Alistar.
Additionally, Dr. Mundo has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Alistar matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a decent counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Dr. Mundo against Alistar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Dr. Mundo to counter Alistar during both the laning 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 stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo often accumulates much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Dr. Mundo versus Alistar build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Dr. Mundo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Alistar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average win rate of 50.3% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Alistar as Dr. Mundo, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Dr. Mundo vs Alistar counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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