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.
The Alistar Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nilah helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is paired with Nilah, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Nilah provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Nilah 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 Nilah.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Nilah on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Nilah does a poor job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nilah is a very typical teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, they decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Alistar and Nilah that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nilah has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Nilah allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Alistar players will likely witness 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.
Conversely, by pairing Alistar and Nilah together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nilah ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to work well with Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Alistar and Nilah synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Nilah than with most other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 49.0% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take 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 we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.0% win rate overall.
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