Support Alistar Build
Support Alistar build with runes and items. Support Alistar guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Alistar build in League of Legends Patch 14.23!
Updated: 2024-09-18 ()
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
Q
W
E
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Support Alistar Runes
Resolve
Precision
Passive
How it works
General
- You support your Team providing Healing, Shielding and various Buffs.
- You rush Moonstone Renewer.
- You can peel from your carries with Exhaust.
How to play
General
- You need to adapt in the game to your team and to the enemy team.
- You can get Mark (Snowball) summoner instead of Exhaust if you want to play more aggressive and to go in.
- You will be squishy early on, and if you don't go some tanky items later. Be careful!
- Your team needs to engage? Get items like Shurelya's Battlesong or Trailblazer.
- Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari
- If you are just getting poked and cannot manage to stay alive - get Kaenic Rookern or Warmog's Armor (caution: needs enough HP!)
- You have tanks, bruisers and your team lack damage? As a last resort, you can buy few items to even help with that!
- Remember to counter an enemy team. For example, if they have lots of healing, get Oblivion Orb early.
Tips and Tricks
General
- Trick #1 (the simplest combo possible): W + Q together, so you gap close with W and knock up immediately with Q.
- Trick #2: Q first, then during animation use Flash right away to your target to insta stun them. This way you can insta CC unsuspecting enemies.
- Trick #3: W to the minion, Q (not in mid air, wait for W to end), then Flash right away to your target. You will insta stun them.
- Trick #4: You can CC for longer, if you first W enemy into wall (it stuns them), then Q them instead of jut doing W+Q.
- Trick #5: You can use W to escape. Just W to a minion or enemy champion that is far away.
- Trick #6: If you Flash at the very end of the animation of Headbutt (W), you will cancel the ability.
- Your Unbreakable Will (R) is most effective when you are high HP. Pop it at the beginning of the fight, do not wait to be low hp, unless you are expecting to remove some crucial CC.
Riot
- Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
- Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
- Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Skill Order
- PulverizeQ
- HeadbuttW
- TrampleE
- Unbreakable WillR
Items
Starting items
Boots
For mana problems
Rush this
Good support items
Counter poke
For engage
Situational items
Counter healing
Situational dmg items
For survivability
For the last fight
Example final build