Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
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 show some important Tryndamere vs. Alistar counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the pair. Tryndamere’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Tryndamere may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Tryndamere typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Tryndamere usually fairs equally well when taking on Alistar, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Tryndamere makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Tryndamere does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Tryndamere also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Tryndamere into Alistar.
Furthermore, Tryndamere has only a small amount of utility and CC, 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 is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tryndamere vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Tryndamere is a somewhat poor counter for Alistar. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Tryndamere against Alistar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tryndamere in order to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tryndamere typically accumulates much more CS as Alistar. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Tryndamere versus Alistar build consist of Mortal Reminder, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tryndamere combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Alistar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Tryndamere boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Alistar as Tryndamere, Tryndamere players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Tryndamere vs Alistar counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.1% winrate overall.
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