Rengar vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Rengar
based on 2,450 Rengar vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rengar vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Rengar vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Rengar
Tips for Playing as Rengar against Alistar
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Rengar in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several valuable Rengar versus Alistar counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Rengar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rengar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Rengar normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Alistar. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Rengar and Alistar
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Who is Better, Rengar or Alistar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Rengar usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 48.6% win rate. Thus, Rengar makes a poor counter for Alistar.
While Rengar does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Rengar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Rengar into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Rengar also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Rengar vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rengar is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Rengar against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Rengar 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rengar typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Alistar. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rengar versus Alistar build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Rengar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Alistar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Rengar boasted an average winrate of 48.6% battling Alistar with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Alistar as Rengar, Rengar players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rengar vs Alistar counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% win rate overall.
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