[2.4] Alistar Guide - The Angry Cow plows Mid
The Angry Cow plows Mid
Alistar Build
Best Build Guide for Alistar
Item Build Description
Additional information on the items
Sapphire Crystal
as first item because of its mana sustainability.
Then you build a
Lich Bane
as it increases your burst damage by a lot.
After that you get
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
in order to decrease your CDs as you have huge CDs. You can upgrade this later with a
Glorious Enchant
.
Rabadon's Deathcap
as it's a pure AP increase and there's not many viable magic items for
Alistar
.
Infinity Orb
and
Morellonomicon
for health + AP while increasing overall damage by a flat magic penetration.
Void Staff
to increase the damage output by a great amount usually destroying all magic resistance.
Squishies have 50- MR by the end of the game. 20MR is removed by
Void Staff
and 15 + 15MRis removed by the two flat magic penetration items.
Alistar Runes
Best Runes for Alistar
Electrocute increases the burst of your combo,
Brutal increases the burst of your combo as well from the start.
Spirit Walker gives you bonus health which is good on a squishy Alistar, and some slow resistance which is always nice.
Sweet Tooth helps sustain and there's not a more viable rune.
Skill Order
How to distribute skill points
Summoner Spells
When to take which summoners
Combos
Learn how to maximize the champions potential
You have to activate
Pulverize
right after pressing
Headbutt
in order to cancel the animation of
Headbutt
. This leads to not knocking the target away. This way, you can get two huge abilites in quick succession, and with an AA on top of it you can proc Electrocute. You can follow up with
Trample
if the enemy is low. If you have built
Lich Bane
, wait 1.5 seconds before activating
Trample
.
This is the bread and butter of this build.
Practice the combo in Practice with a dummy.
Alistar Matchups & Counters
Detailed information on how to play matchups and counters
STOMP HER!
Failing your combo
This happens many times and you'll get better with practice. The ways your combo can fail are:
- The enemy is out of range for your
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Headbutt
, so the ability doesn't activate and you
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Pulverize
in place. This happens very very often, so don't get discouraged by the high CDs. Either
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Headbutt
for chip and disruption while syncing your combo abilities CDs, or back away and wait for
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Pulverize
. - You don't press
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Pulverize
fast enough and the enemy ends up knocked away. This is unfortunate, but all you can do is learn from your mistakes.
Stomping your enemies
- STAMPEDE!
- Now I'm angry!
- You mess with the bull, you get the horn!
- Moo?
Ultimate
Don't forget your
Unbreakable Will
as it gives you the tankiness you need. Experience teaches you the optimal timing, but you'll usually want to use it when:
- Diving a tower
- Diving the enemy team
- Are CCed
- etc.
Your Ult clears any CC like a
Quicksilver Enchant
and gives you damage reduction from anything, including turrets.
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