Aatrox with Alistar
How to Synergize Aatrox and Alistar
based on 3,260 Aatrox with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aatrox Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Aatrox vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Alistar
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Aatrox Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Aatrox perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox is paired with Alistar, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Alistar doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Alistar on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Aatrox during teamfights.
Synergies between Aatrox and Alistar
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best companion for Aatrox that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Alistar is a very typical ally for Aatrox. By playing on the same side as Aatrox, he lowers their win rate by -0.9% to 49.5%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small strategic relationship between Aatrox and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Aatrox. That means Aatrox players need to be careful when enlisting Alistar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Aatrox players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Aatrox and Alistar together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to pair well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to include in your Aatrox and Alistar synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Death's Dance, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox bought at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.5% winrate overall.
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