Soraka vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Soraka
based on 1,409 Soraka vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Alistar Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Soraka Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Alistar as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Alistar
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Soraka in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several significant Soraka vs. Alistar counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Alistar..
Soraka typically has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Soraka and Alistar
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Soraka or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Soraka usually fairs equally well when playing against Alistar, with a 49.8% win rate. As a result, Soraka makes an ok counter to Alistar.
While Soraka does have a lower win rate than Alistar, when on opposite teams, Soraka also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Soraka into Alistar.
Additionally, Soraka has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Soraka is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Alistar.
Other Champion Matchups Against Soraka
Additional Information for Soraka Players
How We Calculated Our Soraka vs Alistar Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Soraka to counter Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka usually picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Alistar. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Soraka versus Alistar build consist of Dream Maker, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Soraka used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when playing against Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Alistar as Soraka, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Soraka vs Alistar battles, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 49.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Alistar as Soraka are presented for every ranked division. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.