Warwick vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Warwick
based on 2,526 Warwick vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Alistar
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Warwick in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some significant Warwick versus Alistar counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Warwick typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Alistar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Warwick and Alistar
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Who is Better, Warwick or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Warwick usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Alistar, with a 50.0% win rate. As a result, Warwick makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Warwick does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when on opposite teams, Warwick also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Warwick into Alistar.
Furthermore, Warwick has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Warwick is a decent counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics 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 Warwick against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to counter Alistar during both the early game 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 mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick usually gets more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Warwick versus Alistar build include Experimental Hexplate, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Alistar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average win rate of 50.0% when playing against Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Alistar as Warwick, Warwick players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Warwick vs Alistar LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.0% win rate overall.
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