Master Yi with Alistar
How to Synergize Master Yi and Alistar
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Master Yi Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Master Yi and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Master Yi with Alistar
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
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.
Master Yi Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Master Yi in LoL
The Master Yi 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, Master Yi 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 fall shows that Alistar helps Master Yi perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Master Yi tries to synergize with Alistar, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Alistar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Master Yi is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Moreover, when Master Yi plays with Alistar on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Master Yi in team fights.
Synergies between Master Yi and Alistar
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Is Master Yi better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best synergy for Master Yi that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Alistar is a very typical ally for Master Yi. By being on the same side as Master Yi, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong synergy between Master Yi and Alistar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Master Yi. That means Master Yi players should be very careful when lining up Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Master Yi players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Master Yi and Alistar together, you will not be granting your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their 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 should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Master Yi to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Master Yi and Alistar synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Death's Dance. When Master Yi incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Master Yi had an average winrate of 51.0% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Master Yi players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.0% win rate overall.
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