You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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 Neeko 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, Neeko sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Neeko perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Neeko is an ally to Alistar, she sees a clear improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Alistar supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Neeko plays with Alistar on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Neeko in team fights.
There is no top ally for Neeko that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Alistar is a very typical teammate for Neeko. By playing on the same side as Neeko, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 49.5%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Neeko and Alistar that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Neeko. That means you should be careful when finding Alistar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Neeko and Alistar together, you probably will not be providing your other allies a lot of attack damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Neeko in order to work well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Neeko and Alistar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Neeko combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Alistar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Neeko boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Neeko and Alistar pairings, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Alistar with Neeko are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.