Rumble with Alistar
How to Synergize Rumble and Alistar
based on 1,242 Rumble with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rumble Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Alistar
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Rumble perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble plays on the same team as Alistar, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change could signal that Alistar does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played alongside Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Alistar on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Rumble in team fights.
Synergies between Rumble and Alistar
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best companion for Rumble that will always be his top ally. Yet, Alistar is a decent companion for Rumble. By locking into the same side as Rumble, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.8%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Rumble and Alistar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Alistar has a much lower diffuclty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Alistar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Rumble players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Rumble and Alistar together, you will not be providing your team very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to work well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Rumble and Alistar synergy build include Riftmaker, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other common builds. In fact, Rumble had an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Rumble players should equip the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Rumble and Alistar pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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