Heimerdinger with Alistar
How to Synergize Heimerdinger and Alistar
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Heimerdinger Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Heimerdinger and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger with Alistar
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
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.
Heimerdinger Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Heimerdinger in LoL
The Heimerdinger Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Heimerdinger sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Heimerdinger perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Heimerdinger tries to synergize with Alistar, he observes a clear improvement in his full damage output. This may indicate that Alistar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Heimerdinger is played alongside Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Heimerdinger plays with Alistar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Heimerdinger in teamfights.
Synergies between Heimerdinger and Alistar
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Is Heimerdinger better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Heimerdinger that will always be his top ally. Yet, Alistar is a very typical ally for Heimerdinger. By locking into the same side as Heimerdinger, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Heimerdinger and Alistar that results in them performing at the same level together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Heimerdinger. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Alistar comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Heimerdinger players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by pairing Heimerdinger and Alistar together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AD. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger to work well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Heimerdinger and Alistar synergy build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Alistar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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