Lee Sin vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Lee Sin
based on 2,043 Lee Sin vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Alistar
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Lee Sin vs. Alistar matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Alistar. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lee Sin and Alistar
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Alistar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when playing against Alistar, with a 48.9% win rate. As a result, Lee Sin makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Lee Sin also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Lee Sin into Alistar.
Furthermore, Lee Sin also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin 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.
Lee Sin is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lee Sin in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Alistar. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Lee Sin versus Alistar build include Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Alistar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 48.9% when countering Alistar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Alistar as Lee Sin, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Lee Sin vs Alistar counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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