Alistar with Kindred
How to Synergize Alistar and Kindred
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Alistar Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Alistar Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kindred helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Kindred, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Kindred does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Kindred 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 with Kindred.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Kindred on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Alistar in teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Kindred
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Alistar that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Kindred is a below average companion for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, they lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Alistar and Kindred that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Kindred teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Alistar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Alistar and Kindred together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar to pair well with Kindred during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Alistar and Kindred synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Kindred than with most other common item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, Alistar players should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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