Lux vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Lux
based on 5,576 Lux vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Alistar
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some critical Lux against Alistar matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Alistar..
Lux typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lux and Alistar
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Who is Better, Lux or Alistar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Alistar, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Lux makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Lux does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Lux also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Lux into Alistar.
Furthermore, Lux also has a good 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lux vs Alistar matchups, Lux is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Lux is a decent counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lux against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Lux in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux usually picks up more CS compared to Alistar. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Lux versus Alistar build include Malignance, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Stormsurge. When Lux included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better countering Alistar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Lux had an average winrate of 50.6% when playing against Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Alistar as Lux, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Lux vs Alistar matchups, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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