Kalista with Alistar
How to Synergize Kalista and Alistar
based on 1,060 Kalista with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Alistar
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Kalista perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kalista is an ally to Alistar, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Alistar on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Alistar
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no perfect ally for Kalista that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Alistar is a relatively poor teammate for Kalista. By being on the same team as Kalista, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 45.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful synergy between Kalista and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Kalista. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Alistar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Kalista players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Kalista and Alistar together, you may not be giving your team enough AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to synergize with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to get in your Kalista and Alistar synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kalista combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kalista had an average win rate of 45.9% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Kalista players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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