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.
Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
The Alistar Mordekaiser synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Mordekaiser, 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 Mordekaiser. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Mordekaiser helps Alistar perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Mordekaiser, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Mordekaiser does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Mordekaiser on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Mordekaiser.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Mordekaiser on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Mordekaiser does a decent job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Mordekaiser is a good teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 2.8% to 52.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Alistar and Mordekaiser that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Mordekaiser has a much lower diffuclty than Alistar. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Mordekaiser teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by aligning Alistar and Mordekaiser together, you may not be giving your side enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Mordekaiser teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to synergize with Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Alistar and Mordekaiser synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Mordekaiser than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 52.2% helping carry Mordekaiser with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
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