Alistar
Hardest matchups for Alistar in Support (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Amumu, 
Leona, 
Zilean. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Twitch, 
Mel.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into AlistarOn the pro tier list
Alistar on patch 16.22
- Support51.7%#8 of 77A16,172 games
- steady since 16.21
Alistar’s main role on patch 16.22 is Support: a 51.7% win rate across 16,172 Emerald games, #8 of 77 Support champions on the tier list (grade A), picked in 6.6% of games. Since patch 16.21, Alistar Support has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.1 points across 87,330 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support98% of its games | A | 51.2%51.2% raw ±0.5 | 34,210 | 5.0%1.6% banned | 52.7%49.4% first time |
| Top1% of its games | too few games | 48.7%46.1% raw ±4.5 | 482 | 0.1%1.7% banned | 50.8%45.9% first time |
| Mid0% of its games | too few games | 47.8%33.1% raw ±8.3 | 139 | 0.0%1.6% banned | 51.0%45.7% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.7%40.0% raw ±19.6 | 25 | 0.0%1.7% banned | 51.6%47.1% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 49.3%19.0% raw ±21.4 | 21 | 0.0%1.6% banned | 51.2%46.9% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Alistar’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Alistar, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Alistar
Lane leads and team bans
What Alistar’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Alistar than the other team does in the same games (218,567 games). The other team banned before Alistar was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Alistar was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Alistar is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Tank
55.4%27,446 games - Enchanter
54.3%1,165 games - AP sustained
56.0%324 games - AP burst
55.1%151 games - AD bruiser
55.4%4 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Alistar does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
37,307 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Heal52.9% · 11,130 games
AftershockResolve + Sorcery · 51.2%
Font of Life · Bone Plating · Unflinching · Nimbus Cloak · CelerityShards: Ability Haste · Move Speed · Health
Support item: Solstice Sleigh · 52.7%
Key items: Locket of the Iron Solari → Knight's Vow · 57.0%
Boots: Boots of Swiftness · 56.3%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Heal52.9%11,130 games · 30% pick rate · same players: +0.6 pts vs the usualRecommended
Flash + Ignite50.4%18,369 games · 49% pick rate · the usual choice
Exhaust + Flash50.9%7,657 games · 21% pick rate · same players: −0.7 pts vs the usual
Keystones
- Aftershock + Sorcery51.2%5,024 games · 13% pick rate · same players: +0.4 pts vs the usualRecommended
Aftershock + Inspiration50.8%20,314 games · 54% pick rate · the usual choice
Glacial Augment + Resolve50.1%3,578 games · 9.6% pick rate · same players: −0.1 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Electrocute + Inspiration50.2%1,106 games · 3.0% pick rate · same players: −0.6 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Aftershock
- Font of Life50.9%99% take it
- Bone Plating50.6%91% take it
Second Wind53.8%6.6% take it
Conditioning52.1%2.6% take it
- Unflinching50.8%92% take it
Overgrowth51.6%5.2% take it
Revitalize52.5%2.4% take it
- Nimbus Cloak51.3%96% take it
- Celerity53.1%17% take it
Waterwalking50.8%80% take it
Transcendence51.8%4.5% take it
- Ability Haste51.3%93% take it
- Adaptive Force49.5%4.3% take it
- Attack Speed52.0%2.7% take it
- Move Speed53.4%25% take it
- Health Scaling50.6%70% take it
- Adaptive Force49.2%4.6% take it
- Health52.6%22% take it
- Health Scaling50.8%74% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist52.0%3.9% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Alistar’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Alistar’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Alistar does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Alistar wins 48.7%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.8%. That gap ranks it 116 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 9.6K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Alistar in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | 52.3%250W 215L | 20%20% in any lane | 55% counter | −141 gold | — |
How much knowing Alistar pays
Players on their Mastery band win 4.1 points more on Alistar than first-timers do: #116 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Alistar players win 52.8%: #57 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 52.9%, and is half-way up by ~32K points.
AlistarDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Alistar ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Pyke, Soraka, Braum.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.