Hecarim vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Hecarim
based on 1,659 Hecarim vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Alistar
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Hecarim vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here feature some critical Hecarim against Alistar counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Hecarim normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Hecarim and Alistar
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Alistar?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when facing off against Alistar, with a 48.0% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Hecarim also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Hecarim into Alistar.
Furthermore, Hecarim has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is a terribly counter to Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Hecarim against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Alistar. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Hecarim versus Alistar build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Alistar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 48.0% when playing against Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Alistar as Hecarim, Hecarim players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Hecarim vs Alistar matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
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