Alistar with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Alistar and Caitlyn
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Alistar Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Alistar Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Caitlyn helps Alistar perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Caitlyn, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Caitlyn does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Caitlyn. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Caitlyn.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Caitlyn does a decent job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Caitlyn
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no ideal ally for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Caitlyn is a relatively poor teammate for Alistar. By playing on the same team as Alistar, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Alistar and Caitlyn that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players don't need to be very careful when finding Caitlyn comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Alistar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Alistar and Caitlyn together, you may not be granting your other allies enough AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Caitlyn ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Alistar in order to work well with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Alistar and Caitlyn synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Caitlyn than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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