Vi with Alistar
How to Synergize Vi and Alistar
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Vi Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Vi with Alistar
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi 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 drop shows that Alistar helps Vi perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vi is an ally to Alistar, she observes a small increase in her full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Alistar helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Alistar on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Vi in teamfights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vi that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Alistar is a below average teammate for Vi. By being on the same team as Vi, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Vi and Alistar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Vi. That means Vi players must be careful when arranging Alistar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Vi players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Vi and Alistar together, you may not be giving your team very much AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi to pair well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Vi and Alistar synergy build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Vi combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Alistar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.5% win rate overall.
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