Vi vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Vi
based on 1,753 Vi vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vi vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Vi vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Vi
Tips for Playing as Vi against Alistar
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Vi in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several strategic Vi vs. Alistar matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Vi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Vi often has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vi and Alistar
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Who is Better, Vi or Alistar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vi usually fairs equally well when facing off against Alistar, with a 50.5% win rate. Thus, Vi makes an ok counter for Alistar.
While Vi does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when on opposite teams, Vi also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vi into Alistar.
Additionally, Vi 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vi vs Alistar matchups, Vi is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Vi is a decent counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your strategy 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 Vi against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vi often racks up a similar amount of CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vi versus Alistar build consist of Black Cleaver, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Vi bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Alistar than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vi boasted an average winrate of 50.5% battling Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Alistar as Vi, Vi players should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vi vs Alistar clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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