Trundle vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Trundle
based on 3,900 Trundle vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Alistar
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Trundle in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Trundle versus Alistar counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Alistar. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Trundle often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Trundle and Alistar
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Who is Better, Trundle or Alistar?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually wins when trying to fight Alistar, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Trundle makes a good counter for Alistar.
While Trundle does have a higher winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Trundle also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Trundle into Alistar.
Additionally, Trundle also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Alistar matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Trundle is a good counter for Alistar. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Trundle against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Trundle in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle usually picks up much more CS as Alistar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Trundle versus Alistar build include Ravenous Hydra, Blade of The Ruined King, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 52.6% battling Alistar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Alistar as Trundle, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Trundle vs Alistar LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Alistar as Trundle are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.