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.
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
The Alistar Sivir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sivir, 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 Sivir. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sivir helps Alistar perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Sivir, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Sivir helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Sivir 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 synergisticly with Sivir.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Sivir on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Sivir does a poor job of covering Alistar in team fights.
There is no top ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Sivir is a terrible teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same side as Alistar, she lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 46.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Alistar and Sivir that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Sivir has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Sivir comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Alistar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Alistar and Sivir together, you may not be providing your side enough AP. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Sivir ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Sivir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Alistar and Sivir synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Sivir than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sivir with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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 used for Alistar and Sivir pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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