Caitlyn with Alistar
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Alistar
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Caitlyn Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
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.
Caitlyn Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Caitlyn perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Alistar, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Alistar provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Alistar.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Alistar on the same side, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Alistar does a decent job of covering Caitlyn during teamfights.
Synergies between Caitlyn and Alistar
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Caitlyn that will always be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Alistar is a below average companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same side as Caitlyn, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Caitlyn and Alistar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players must be cautious when enlisting Alistar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Caitlyn players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Caitlyn and Alistar together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of magical damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Alistar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to pair well with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Caitlyn and Alistar synergy build include Infinity Edge, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn used at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Alistar than with many other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Alistar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
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