Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
The Alistar Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ahri helps Alistar perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Ahri, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Ahri does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Ahri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ahri.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Ahri on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Ahri does a decent job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Ahri is a relatively poor companion for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -2.5% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Alistar and Ahri that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Ahri has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Ahri teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Alistar and Ahri together, you may not be giving your side very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To truly master Alistar in order to pair well with Ahri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Alistar and Ahri synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Ahri than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average winrate of 46.9% when playing alongside Ahri with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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