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 Vex Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Vex sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Alistar helps Vex perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vex is an ally to Alistar, they sees a little increase in their complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Alistar supports by providing protection for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Vex is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Additionally, when Vex plays with Alistar on the same team, they typically receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Vex during team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Vex that will no matter what be their #1 teammate. However, overall, Alistar is a not very good teammate for Vex. By playing on the same team as Vex, he drops their win rate by -1.1% to 47.7%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Vex and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Vex. That means you should be careful when enlisting Alistar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Vex players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by aligning Vex and Alistar together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Vex to pair well with Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Vex and Alistar synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex used at least these three finished items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Alistar with these items in their kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Vex and Alistar pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Alistar with Vex are given for every ranked division. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.