NERFPLZ.LOL
Alistar champion portrait

Alistar Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 879 gamesUpdated

45.4%win rate0.0%pick1.8%ban

Who counters Alistar

How to build Alistar

Ionian Boots of Lucidity→Hextech Rocketbelt→Imperial Mandate→Cosmic Drive

Ionian Boots of Lucidity → Hextech Rocketbelt → Imperial Mandate → Cosmic Drive

56.2% win rate 7% of games 32 games
RunesResolveAftershockFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinchingSorceryNimbus CloakWaterwalking16% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite68%
Skills
123456789101112131415161718
Pulverize
29101213
Headbutt
14578
Trample
314151718
Unbreakable Will
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Alistar build →
45.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 46.6% over 2,314 gamesPatch 26.21: 45.4% over 879 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
44.7%at Emerald+
0.0%pick rate
1.8%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
38.4%under 22 min
46.6%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.

Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Alistar champion portraitT AlistarvsMordekaiser champion portraitT Mordekaiser
1 / 5 / 4

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Liandry's Torment

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

WQEWWRWQWQRQQE
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Alistar champion portraitT AlistarvsSion champion portraitT Sion
1 / 6 / 10

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Imperial Mandate→Cosmic Drive

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

WQEQQRQWQWRWWEERE
Loss 35–40m
MASTER+
Alistar champion portraitT AlistarvsSinged champion portraitT Singed
3 / 8 / 11

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Hollow Radiance→Randuin's Omen→Winter's Approach

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QWEQQRQWQWRWEWEREE

Runes

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

Most popular 44.6% win rate · 16% of games · 56 games
ResolveAftershockFont of LifeBone PlatingUnflinching
SorceryNimbus CloakWaterwalking
Shards Ability Haste · Health Scaling · Health Scaling
Runner up 28.6% win rate · 6% of games · 21 games
InspirationGlacial AugmentHextech FlashtraptionBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
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 + Ignite68%45.8%614 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport27%43.4%244 games

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

Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity44%Plated Steelcaps22%Sorcerer's Shoes16%
Ionian Boots of Lucidity most often · 45.6% win rate

Alistar build

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

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Alistar Top is at 879 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Alistar →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 879 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
44% · 46.0% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
21% · 49.5% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
16% · 48.2% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
9% · 41.5% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
4% · 39.5% win rate
BootsBoots
4% · 27.3% win rate
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.

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.

Read More About Alistar