Jayce vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Jayce
based on 916 Jayce vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Alistar
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Jayce in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Jayce against Alistar counter stats that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champs. For instance, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Jayce typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Jayce and Alistar
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Who is Better, Jayce or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Jayce makes a bad counter for Alistar.
While Jayce does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when they face off with one another, Jayce also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Jayce into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Jayce is a terribly counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Jayce against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jayce in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce usually racks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Jayce versus Alistar build consist of Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Edge of Night. When Jayce used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Jayce boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when countering Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Alistar as Jayce, Jayce players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Jayce vs Alistar fights, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% win rate overall.
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