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Alistar
Patch 16.2.1
SupportDifficulty
Easy
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Identify the strongest enemy carry and lock them down with your CC chain, or use to tank a full tower dive, allowing your team to snowball the early lead into a mid-game stomp.
Playstyle
Vanguard tank that specializes in aggressive tower dives and elite peeling. You either initiate the fight or make it impossible for enemies to touch your ADC.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- + makes you the best tower diver in the game by nullifying turret damage.
- +Reliable point-and-click displacement with for easy picks.
- +High sustain in lane through procs from CC and nearby deaths.
- +Excellent at interrupting enemy dashes (like LeBlanc or Lee Sin) with well-timed .
Weaknesses
- -Long early-game cooldowns leave you vulnerable for 15+ seconds after a failed engage.
- -Easily kited by long-range poke champions before you have Flash or boots.
- -Very mana-hungry if you spam and to trade.
- -Committing to an engage with is a one-way trip unless you have .
Abilities
Heals you and nearby allies once you reach 7 stacks. You gain stacks when enemies die or when you CC enemies with , , or . In lane, let minions die nearby to top off your ADC's health.
Your main AOE knockup. Use this to stop enemies from jumping on your carry. You can also cast this mid-dash during to perform the classic combo.
A target-click knockback. Use it to peel threats away or to knock an enemy back into your team. Don't just use it for damage; the displacement is its strongest feature.
Gives ghosting and stacks up while you stay near enemies. Once at 5 stacks, your next auto-attack is a stun. Always activate immediately after you land your to guarantee the stun proc.
The ultimate 'get out of jail free' card. It cleanses ALL current crowd control and makes you nearly unkillable for 7 seconds. Do NOT pop this before the CC hits; use it to break a stun or root instantly while soaking damage. It works on tower shots too.
Teamfight Role
The Frontline Wall
You are either the primary engage or the primary peeler. In most fights, you should jump into the backline, use your combo, and then press to soak all their cooldowns while your team cleans up.
If the enemy has a high-threat assassin (like Zed or Talon) and your ADC is your only win condition, stay back. Use and exclusively to keep them off your carry.
Combos
Standard Engage
-> (mid-air) ->
Your bread and butter. You dash with W and pulse Q the moment you reach them to knock them up. Immediately start to begin stacking the stun while they are airborne.
The Insec
Flash -> -> Walk behind ->
Flash into the enemy team and use to knock up a priority target. Walk behind them and use to launch them into your team's waiting arms.
Sticky Lockdown
-> -> -> wait for stacks -> Auto-attack -> (if CC'd)
The maximum CC chain. Knockup, follow with the trample damage from , and finish with the empowered auto-attack stun. Use only if they try to CC you to escape.
Defensive Peel
(on diver) -> (if they dash back in)
If an assassin jumps on your ADC, use to headbutt them away. If they have a second dash to return, wait and use to stop them in their tracks.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 2 | You unlock the + combo. This is your first real kill pressure window. |
| Level 3 | With , you now have a follow-up stun. Your full rotation can lock someone down for nearly 3 seconds. |
| Level 6 | makes you the ultimate diver. You can now walk under enemy towers with zero fear. |
| Level 11 | Increased damage reduction on and lower cooldowns allow you to stay in the middle of fights much longer. |
Tips & Tricks
- •You can cast during the dash animation. If you wait until you hit them to press Q, they might get knocked too far away.
- • is a CLEANSE. Don't use it preemptively; use it to break a crucial stun or root so you can keep moving.
- • heals based on nearby deaths. If you're low, stay near a dying minion wave to get a free heal proc.
- • ignores unit collision. Use this to walk through minions and get a better angle for your .
- •You can Flash during the start of your animation to catch people off guard with a 'Q-Flash'.
- •When diving, take the first 2-3 tower shots, then press . This resets the 'aggro' logic and reduces the ramped-up tower damage significantly.
Common Mistakes
- ✕Using without and knocking an enemy to safety.→You effectively save the enemy's life and look like a 'secret agent' for their team.
- ✕Popping at full health before any CC hits.→You waste the cleanse and the enemy will just wait 7 seconds before killing you.
- ✕Forgetting to auto-attack after is fully stacked.→You lose a massive 1.5-second stun that could have secured a kill.
- ✕Engaging when and are on cooldown.→Alistar provides zero threat without these. You're just a walking health bar that gets ignored.
- ✕Spamming abilities for poke damage.→You run out of mana instantly and can't use your combo when a real fight breaks out.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached