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 Samira 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, Samira 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 Samira perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Samira is paired with Alistar, she observes a little increase in her total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Alistar on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Alistar does a poor job of covering Samira in teamfights.
There is no top ally for Samira that will 100% of the time be her top ally. Yet, Alistar is a good ally for Samira. By being on the same team as Samira, he increases their win rate by 2.9% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Samira and Alistar that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Samira. That means you must be cautious when lining up Alistar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Samira players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Samira and Alistar together, you may not be granting your side much magical damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Samira to synergize with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Samira and Alistar synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira used at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Samira had an average winrate of 51.6% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Samira and Alistar pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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