Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Rumble vs. Alistar counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Rumble’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rumble may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Rumble typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rumble usually wins when facing off against Alistar, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Rumble makes a great counter for Alistar.
While Rumble does have a higher win rate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Rumble also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rumble into Alistaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Rumble has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rumble vs Alistar matchups, Rumble is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Rumble is a great counter for Alistar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Rumble against Alistar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to counter Alistar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rumble often picks up much more CS relative to Alistar. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Rumble versus Alistar build consist of Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Alistar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Rumble had an average win rate of 53.1% when countering Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Alistar as Rumble, you should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Rumble vs Alistar fights, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.1% win rate overall.
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