Alistar with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Alistar and Heimerdinger
based on 603 Alistar with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Heimerdinger
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.
Advice to Understand How Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Alistar Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Heimerdinger. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Heimerdinger helps Alistar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is paired with Heimerdinger, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Heimerdinger does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Heimerdinger on the same side, he on average receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Heimerdinger
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Alistar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Heimerdinger is a very typical ally for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 49.6%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Alistar and Heimerdinger that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Heimerdinger has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means you should be cautious when arranging Heimerdinger teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Alistar and Heimerdinger together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Heimerdinger teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to synergize with Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar and Heimerdinger synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Heimerdinger than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.6% helping carry Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Alistar and Heimerdinger pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
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