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How to Synergize Anivia and Alistar

based on 787 Anivia with Alistar pairs
Win Rate
53.4 %
K/D/A
2.89
Pick Rate
1.4 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We take in the stats from from millions of League games straight from Riot Games each week. Anivia has gone into battle with Alistar in 787 recently played, ranked matches. By pooling so much great data straight from the publishers of League, we are sure that we can showcase high-quality, insightful builds to help Anivia synergize with Alistar. It is very rare for Anivia to play alongside Alistar on the same team. This has only occurred in approximately 1.4% of games with Anivia.

Anivia Alistar Synergy Summary

Anivia does a good job of playing alongside Alistar. Typically, she wins a fantastic 53.4% of matches the champs fight alongside one another. If you want to play better as Anivia when playing with Alistar by figuring out how to better synergize your tactics with him, then dig into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Anivia vs Alistar Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Doran's RingHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Sapphire CrystalRuby Crystal

Core Anivia Items

~22 Mins
Seraph's EmbraceLiandry's TormentRod of Ages

Optional Items

Zhonya's HourglassMalignance

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Anivia to level upe
>
Second ability for Anivia to level upq
>
Last skill for Anivia to max outw

Runes

DominationElectrocuteCheap ShotEyeball CollectionRelentless Hunter
PrecisionPresence of MindCoup de Grace
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceHealth Scaling
Anivia's passive ability p
Anivia's q ability q
Anivia's w ability w
Anivia's e ability e
Anivia's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
E
5
E
6
R
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Guide to Synergizing Anivia and Alistar

Tips for Playing as Anivia with Alistar

Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.

It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.

Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.

Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play

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.

Anivia Alistar Synergy Stats

Anivia Image
Win Rate
53.4 %
VS
Win Rate
46.6 %
Alistar Image
5.9
< Kills >
5.5
4.7
< Deaths >
5
7.7
< Assists >
7.8
1.35
< Killing Sprees >
1.24
179
< Minions Killed >
160
0.11
< Dragons Killed >
0.11
0.53
< Inhibitors >
0.52
1,377
< Physical Damage >
1,250
18,985
< Magic Damage >
17,783
1,222
< True Damage >
1,190
21,586
< Damage Dealt >
20,223
27,102
< Damage Taken >
26,907
11,652
< Gold Earned >
11,287
2.25
< Towers >
2.1
0.04
< Baron Takedowns >
0.04
4,188
< Total Healing >
3,931
15,599
< Experience >
15,073
19
< Vision Score >
23
9
< Wards Placed >
11
1,069
< Time Dealing CC >
1,000

How to Play with Alistar as Anivia in LoL

The Anivia Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.

Overall, Anivia sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Anivia perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Anivia tries to synergize with Alistar, she gets a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Anivia is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Alistar.

Moreover, when Anivia plays with Alistar on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Anivia in teamfights.

Synergies between Anivia and Alistar

Damage Types Compared

Anivia
Alistar
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Anivia
Alistar

Is Anivia better when played alongside Alistar?

There is no ideal synergy for Anivia that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Alistar is a good ally for Anivia. By playing on the same side as Anivia, he increases their win rate by 2.5% to 53.4%. This signals that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Anivia and Alistar that results in them performing better together than alone.

Alistar has a much lower diffuclty than Anivia. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Alistar allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.

Playing on the same side, Anivia players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.

Although, by aligning Anivia and Alistar together, you will not be giving your team very much AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.

Regardless of the skill of your Alistar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.

Additional Information for Anivia Players

How We Calculated Our Anivia Alistar Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Anivia and Alistar, we analyzed 787 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Anivia with Alistar comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

To learn all of the intricacies of Anivia to work well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.

The best finished items to build first in your Anivia and Alistar synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Liandry's Torment, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Anivia had an average win rate of 53.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Alistar with this build.

To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Anivia players should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.

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