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Alistar Build

Support Tier 2

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 52,093 gamesUpdated

50.8%win rate2.3%pick1.8%ban

Who counters Alistar

Every Support matchup for Alistar, ranked →

How to build Alistar

Boots of Swiftness→Zeke's Convergence→Locket of the Iron Solari→Knight's Vow

Boots of Swiftness → Zeke's Convergence → Locket of the Iron Solari → Knight's Vow

61.2% win rate 19% of games 3,376 games
RunesResolveAftershockFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinchingInspirationCosmic InsightHextech Flashtraption31% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite52%
Skills
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Pulverize
24578
Headbutt
19101213
Trample
314151718
Unbreakable Will
61116
StartWorld AtlasHealth PotionHealth PotionWorld Atlas, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Alistar build →

Best ADCs for Alistar

Who Alistar has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Worst ADCs for Alistar

Who Alistar has the worst record alongside in the bot lane this patch.

Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.

Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.

50.8%win rate
Patch 26.20: 50.9% over 113,750 gamesPatch 26.21: 50.8% over 52,093 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.2%at Emerald+
2.3%pick rate
1.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
49.4%under 22 min
51.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Alistar champion portraitS Alistar+Veigar champion portraitB VeigarvsRell champion portraitS Rell+Kai'Sa champion portraitB Kai'Sa
1 / 9 / 19

Build

Celestial OppositionIonian Boots of Lucidity|Zeke's Convergence→Locket of the Iron Solari

Spells & runes

FlashHeal|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQRWWW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Alistar champion portraitS Alistar+Ezreal champion portraitB EzrealvsSenna champion portraitS Senna+Draven champion portraitB Draven
2 / 2 / 14

Build

Celestial OppositionIonian Boots of Lucidity|Dead Man's Plate

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Alistar champion portraitS Alistar+Aphelios champion portraitB ApheliosvsGalio champion portraitS Galio+Sivir champion portraitB Sivir
0 / 5 / 14

Build

Celestial OppositionBoots of Swiftness|Locket of the Iron Solari→Zeke's Convergence

Spells & runes

FlashHeal|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 50.9% win rate · 31% of games · 15,145 games
ResolveAftershockFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinching
InspirationCosmic InsightHextech Flashtraption
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 49.9% win rate · 14% of games · 6,744 games
ResolveAftershockFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinching
SorceryNimbus CloakWaterwalking
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite52%50.8%27,799 games
  • FlashHealFlash + Heal26%52.4%13,692 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Boots of Swiftness54%Plated Steelcaps22%Mercury's Treads13%
Boots of Swiftness most often · 53.0% win rate
Support item
Celestial Opposition63%Solstice Sleigh33%Zaz'Zak's Realmspike2%
Celestial Opposition most often · 50.9% win rate

Alistar build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Locket of the Iron Solari1st
  2. Knight's Vow2nd
  3. Zeke's Convergence3rd
11% of games that reach a third item take this path59.7% win rate1,921 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Alistar →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 51,483 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
53% · 53.4% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
21% · 51.3% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
13% · 50.5% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
8% · 54.0% win rate
BootsBoots
3% · 25.8% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
1% · 47.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Locket of the Iron Solari›Zeke's Convergence+Boots of Swiftness7% of games · 51.9% win rate · 3,714 games
  2. Locket of the Iron Solari+Boots of Swiftness5% of games · 41.2% win rate · 2,568 games
  3. Zeke's Convergence+Boots of Swiftness3% of games · 45.4% win rate · 1,622 games
  4. Locket of the Iron Solari›Knight's Vow+Boots of Swiftness3% of games · 56.7% win rate · 1,404 games
  5. Locket of the Iron Solari+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 38.7% win rate · 1,206 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Alistar against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Alistar's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Alistar's average instead of 50%.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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