Alistar with Jarvan IV
How to Synergize Alistar and Jarvan IV
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Alistar Jarvan IV Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Jarvan IV
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Jarvan IV
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 Jarvan IV Will Play
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize damage.
Alistar Jarvan IV Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jarvan IV as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Jarvan IV synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jarvan IV, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Jarvan IV. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jarvan IV helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Jarvan IV, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Jarvan IV supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Jarvan IV on the same side, 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 with Jarvan IV.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Jarvan IV on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Jarvan IV does a poor job of covering Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Jarvan IV
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Jarvan IV?
There is no perfect companion for Alistar that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Jarvan IV is a very typical companion for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.4%. This signals that there is a weak strategic relationship between Alistar and Jarvan IV that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Jarvan IV has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Jarvan IV comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Alistar and Jarvan IV together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jarvan IV ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 work well with Jarvan IV during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Alistar and Jarvan IV synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Jarvan IV than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.4% when playing alongside Jarvan IV with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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