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.
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
The Alistar Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar is paired with Xayah, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Xayah does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played with Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xayah.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Xayah on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Xayah does a poor job of protecting Alistar during teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Alistar that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Xayah is a relatively poor teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -1.6% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Alistar and Xayah that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xayah has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Xayah allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Alistar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Alistar and Xayah together, you will not be granting your team much magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Xayah teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Alistar in order to work well with Xayah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Alistar and Xayah synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Xayah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Xayah with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 players used for Alistar and Xayah pairings, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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