Alistar with Kalista
How to Synergize Alistar and Kalista
based on 1,060 Alistar with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Alistar Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Alistar perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Kalista, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Kalista does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kalista.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Kalista on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kalista does a decent job of covering Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Kalista
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no top ally for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Kalista is a terrible teammate for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, she decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 45.9%. This proves that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Alistar and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Kalista allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Alistar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Alistar and Kalista together, you may not be providing your team very much magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Kalista teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 pair well with Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Alistar and Kalista synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 45.9% helping carry Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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