Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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 here underscore some strategic Renekton versus Alistar counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the two. Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Renekton typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Renekton usually loses when facing off against Alistar, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Renekton makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Renekton does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Renekton also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Renekton into Alistar.
Moreover, Renekton has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Renekton vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Renekton is a trash counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Renekton against Alistar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Renekton to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton typically racks up much more CS as Alistar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Renekton versus Alistar build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Alistar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Renekton boasted an average win rate of 47.0% battling Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Alistar as Renekton, Renekton players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Renekton vs Alistar face-offs, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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