Yasuo vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Yasuo
based on 4,309 Yasuo vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Alistar
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some vital Yasuo vs. Alistar counter stats that may help us realize the differences between this set of champs. Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Alistar. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Yasuo usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Yasuo and Alistar
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Alistar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Yasuo makes a poor counter for Alistar.
While Yasuo does have a lower winrate compared to Alistar, when on opposite teams, Yasuo also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yasuo also has almost no 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 is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yasuo 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 late stage team fights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo usually picks up much more CS as Alistar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Yasuo versus Alistar build include Infinity Edge, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Alistar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average winrate of 48.5% battling Alistar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Alistar as Yasuo, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Yasuo vs Alistar LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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