Best Alistar Build Guide | Runes | Spells | Items in LoL

Alistar support is an amazing champion who can heal nearby allied champions and apply a huge amount of crowd control effects to enemy champions, however, playing Alistar support can be complicated if you're a beginner. But, don't worry, here we will show you the best Alistar support rune set, build, summoner spells and much more. Let's start!

Best Alistar Build

When playing Alistar support you don't only need to pay attention to your Alistar's main combo to knock enemies, you will also have to pay attention to the Alistar build. So, the main goal is to get the top Alistar building tank items to be in the front lane during the team fights. When playing Alistar support champion, you may buy tank items, use your triumphant roar to keep your allies alive, and help your allies to engage or disengage during a team fight.

Best Alistar Runes

If you play Alistar, you may use the right rune set in order to get damage reduction and movement speed during the laning phase to keep your ADC alive and apply CC to nearby enemies. So, you may choose runes under the resolve tree, use aftershock, demolish, conditioning and overgrowth. Keep in mind you may choose inspiration tree as a secondary rune set with cosmic insight and biscuit delivery.

Best Rune Path	Resolve	Inspiration
Best Keystone	Aftershock
Best Slot 1 (Rune)	Demolish	Biscuit Delivery
Best Slot 2 (Rune)	Conditioning	Cosmic Insight
Best Slot 3 (Rune)	Overgrowth

Best Alistar Rune Shards

As Alistar support, you may choose the best rune shards in order to gain sustain during the laning phase and receive less damage when you start engaging the enemy champions. So, the best Alistar runes for achieving this goal are Ability haste, armor, and life. However, consider getting some magic resistance rune shard in case the enemy support champion deals magic damage.

Best Rune Shards	Effect
Offense	+8 Ability Haste
Flex	+6 Armor
Defense	15 − 140 (based on level) bonus health

Best Alistar Summoner's Spells

Alistar summoner spells are really important to guarantee kills during the early game, however, consider analyzing the enemy champions in order to make the best choice. Usually, Alistar summoner spells are Flash Ignite or Flash Exhaust spells. Consider using exhaust if the enemy team has a lot of burst damage and can easily take the ADC down.

Best Spells	Icon
Flash
Ignite

Best Alistar Abilities Order

When playing Alistar, and possibly the most complicated mechanics about the champion, are the Alistar powerful combo. Alistar's combo consists in casting headbutt animation plus your pulverize combo ability to create an amazing knockback effect against any enemy champion. So, the skill order for Alistar starts with his Pulverize (Q), followed by Headbutt (W), and lastly his Trample (E). Our recommendation, learn very well how to do the Alistar's pulverize combo and take advantage of Trample damages, it is a crucial thing.

Best Alistar items

In order to deal and support as much damage as possible with Alistar, your main build is focused on getting tank item and being able to get a massive amount of health as soon as possible. So, it's not a surprise that items such as Warmog's armor, Zeke's convergence, Mobility boots, and Knight's Vow are a must to deal damage to the enemy team, get magic resist and armor to help your team as a front laner. Don't worry, we will talk a little more about Alistar build.

Best Starter Alistar Items

As you may be thinking, and due that Alistar is a tank support, you may buy a Relic Shield and some health potions as starter items. A Relic shield is more recommended than any other starter item because it gives you some ability power and, remember, Alistar abilities escalate and deal magic damage.

First Item	Second Item
Relic Shield	Health Potion

Best Mid Game Alistar Items

During the mid game, when Alistar can get rid of a very long cooldown for his abilities, you should consider having the following items in your inventory: Locket of the Iron Solari, Zeke's convergence and mobility boots. The Locket of the iron Solari is an amazing item to support your team during a team fight and combined with Alistar's triumphant roar and unbreakable will (R), your team will be able to survive long team fights, which is the goal of patch 12.15.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item
Mobility Boots	Locket of the Iron Solari	Zeke's Convergence

Best Final Late Game Alistar Items

Finally, in the late game stages, Alistar should be a very tank machine that even the most powerful ranged champions will find impossible to kill. To achieve this goal, consider getting these items: Locket of the iron Solari, Zeke's convergence, Mobility boots, Dead man's plate, Thornmail and, a situational item to get some magic resist, Force of nature.

First Item	Second Item	Third Item	Fourth Item	Fifth Item	Sixth Item
Locket of the Iron Solari	Mobility Boots	Zeke's Convergence	Knight's Vow	Thornmail	Dead man's plate

This build can be also used if you're a LoL wild rift lover and, at the late game, it will guarantee you can make a tower dive easily. So, it's normal to see any enemy champion running away from Alistar in the late game because he can support their teammates with his powerful triumphant roar and engage with his huge crowd control plus flash ignite combo.

Best Champions to pair Alistar with

If you love supporting your team, then the best Alistar pair champions are Tristana, Sivir, and Kog'maw. Alistar is an incredible option to stop any hostility against his ADC and his incredible pulverize combo can help ADC champions. Once you get mobility boots and Flash, Alistar can easily engage any enemy champion and send him right to the base. You may also read our guide about the best Jinx build League of Legends, which is another good pair for Alistar.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Kog'Maw	53%
Tristana	51%
Sivir	51%

Strongest Champions against Alistar

Alistar has a negative win rate against ranged champions who can poke him or those champions who can stop his engage. So, avoid playing Alistar if you're playing against Janna, Bard, or Swain. Those champions can make your lane phase really horrible. You may take a look at our guide about the best Blitzcrank build League of Legends, which is another good support you may try.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Janna	42.5%
Bard	43%
Swain	44.1%

Weakest Champions against Alistar

On the other hand, Alistar is an amazing League of legends champion when used against hard engage matchups. So, Alistar is really strong against Nautilus, Thresh and Yuumi. Alistar is a good champion to stop hard engage and keep his ADC safe, but be careful, learning how to play Alistar may take some time in order to dominate his combo.

Champion	Win Rate %	Icon
Nautilus	53.72%
Yuumi	52.84%
Thresh	51.18%

As some last advice for the bulwark of the mountain, you can use the pack hunter rune in wild rift in case you want to roam more around the map, but be careful your ADC is not vulnerable to ganks. If you liked this guide, you may take a look at our guide about the best Karma build League of Legends. See you at the summoner's rift!