If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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 stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several strategic Evelynn vs. Alistar counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. For instance, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Evelynn typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Evelynn usually loses when trying to fight Alistar, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Evelynn makes a bad counter for Alistar.
While Evelynn does have a lower win rate than Alistar, when they face off with one another, Evelynn also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Evelynn into Alistaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Evelynn is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Evelynn against Alistar.
If you would like to truly master Evelynn to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn typically picks up less CS relative to Alistar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Evelynn versus Alistar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Void Staff. When Evelynn included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Evelynn had an average winrate of 48.2% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Alistar as Evelynn, Evelynn players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Evelynn vs Alistar counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.2% win rate overall.
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