Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Lissandra perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra is an ally to Alistar, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Alistar supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Alistar.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Alistar on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. Yet, Alistar is a very typical ally for Lissandra. By locking into the same team as Lissandra, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 48.8%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Lissandra and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by grouping Lissandra and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Lissandra to pair well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Lissandra and Alistar synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Lissandra combined at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Lissandra players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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