Kai'Sa vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Kai'Sa
based on 2,792 Kai'Sa vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Alistar Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Kai'Sa Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Alistar as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Alistar
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several vital Kai'Sa vs. Alistar counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Alistar
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Alistar?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Kai'Sa makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Alistar.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa 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 allies during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Alistar. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Alistar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
Additional Information for Kai'Sa Players
How We Calculated Our Kai'Sa vs Alistar Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kai'Sa to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically accumulates much more CS compared to Alistar. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Alistar build include Guardian Angel, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Alistar as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Kai'Sa vs Alistar battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Alistar as Kai'Sa are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.