Alistar with Poppy
How to Synergize Alistar and Poppy
based on 824 Alistar with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Alistar Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy helps Alistar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Poppy, he observes a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Poppy does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Poppy on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Poppy does a decent job of protecting Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Poppy
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Poppy is a very typical ally for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, she improves their win rate by 0.7% to 50.1%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Alistar and Poppy that results in them performing better together than alone.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Poppy teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by grouping Alistar and Poppy together, you may not be granting your other allies much magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Alistar and Poppy synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Poppy than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 50.1% helping carry Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Poppy with Alistar are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.